11/27/2025
The Calm Within
When everything around you
feels agitated or unsettled,
finding peace within
can seem impossible,
like trying to hold still water
in trembling hands.
Yet in the quiet
beneath the surface
of all that unrest
lives a small, steady pulse
that belongs only to you.
It doesn’t ask the world
to calm itself,
only that you turn inward
long enough to hear it.
Peace isn’t always a revelation,
sometimes it’s the simple act
of breathing through the storm,
loosening your grip
on what you cannot control,
trusting the turbulence
to pass in its own time.
And in that soft inner space,
however fleeting,
you discover that calm
is not bestowed by circumstance
but grown within you,
even in the heart of chaos.
~ 'The Calm Within' by Spirit of a Hippie
✍️ Mary Anne Byrne
~ Art 'Peace in the Midst' by Janice VanCronkhite
