Self-Talk

For the moments when you want to scream and tear your hair out in frustration:

Remember.

From three years, five years, ten years

"Down the road," as they say,

Or downstream, even better.

Remember this moment

As it will be when

The hot flush has long cooled,

The tears have evaporated

Behind a veil of laughter and other griefs.

Perhaps the memory will give you

A little consolation and

A little perspective.

A little and yet enough to get by.