You don’t know it
in the moment;
you just don’t know it;
you are immersed
in the water and you feel
like you need to breathe,
have to breathe,
can’t get your breath and
you push-off and ascend
hoping not to get the bends;
forty some years go by
and when you look back
you know that
you were in the sky
the whole time,
all forty years
as they have gone by.
You breathe a great sigh;
why
didn’t I
know it back then?
And then
Frank Sinatra whispers
in your ear, “That’s life!”