Pushing Pause

Sometimes you need to feel it.
Roll your sleeves up
stick your hands in
and get way down deep with it
all the way up to the elbows of your clean new shirt.

Sometimes you need to stand across the street from it
holler and wave as it rolls by
smile stuck firmly in place
hiding the tears that fall behind the windows to your soul.

Sometimes you need to get behind it...
sneak up on it and blitz it before it blitzes you...
execution style.

And sometimes you just need to step back for a few minutes..
press pause..
and wait until the time comes when you feel strong enough
to resume play.