Quiet My Soul

Katie McBroom, via Unsplash

I seek reprieve in the quietude, solace in the far-off distance, and a sanctuary within this restless soul that still keeps longing for rest — yet it always wars against itself.

I cannot tame the beast within — this maddening desire for power to make up for the years of utter powerlessness, helplessness, and debilitating doubt that holds my mind hostage, leaving me in a perpetual drought that yields cyclical agony within every cell of…