One Week

I'm writing this
from a place
of clarity,
the place I get to be
one week a month
or 12 days 
if I'm lucky.
The haze had cleared,
the spirals have settled,
I can pinpoint my feelings
and work through them
in more balanced ways.
I'm not swinging from one
emotional extreme to the other.
I don't take things 
as personally.
The lens I look at
my life through
isn't as low.
My sadness has
gone back out 
to sea for
the time being.
This is the week
I find stability
or the closest
I can get to it.
The more I awareness I have
on the weeks where 
I jet off into space
on an emotional 
roller coaster,
the easier 
it becomes to
ride the waves.
I can get through things
knowing I will have 
one week
to breathe easier,
the calm before
the next storm.