Stemming the tide

​Rest, recuperation, renewal, regeneration

What do you need to heal the wounds

Put your life back on a firm foundation

Do you have a special place, bookmarked outside the rat race

Or a place within your mind

Where you stash any hurts until you can rewind

Sanity, surety, safety, success

What strategies do you have to cope

When life throws brick bats and you are feeling low

That anchor you, that give you hope 

Do you have a plan, or ride the storms in all their forms

If cast adrift

Where do you find the lift

Delve inside, find love, then strength to stem the tide.