Tom Dylan

Off the Beach

I have a pebble on my desk

from a holiday years ago,

if anyone asks, I tell them

it\'s a paper-weight,

a small souvenir,

but when the job

and life in general

gets on top of me

and I feel the dull ache

of stress and tension

gripping my shoulders

and crushing the 

back of my neck

 

I pick up that pebble

closing my fingers

gently but tightly

around it

and breath slowly

until I can

hear the crash of the waves

and feel the sun on my face.