Do What You Can

 The lake has risen

Spilling past its boundaries onto the trail

A silver and rainbow fish

Floats belly up against a piling

Myles investigates revealing

She’s alive, but unable to right herself.

She doesn’t look afraid to me

Even paddles closer with one fin,

As if to say

Take my body, I accept.

When my daughter was little

We had a goldfish.

One day I found it floating upside down

Appearing dead in the tank.

Out of desperation to spare my daughter pain,

I tried Reiki on it—holding my hands on either side of the tank.

To my surprise, it worked.

The fish healed, flipped upright and lived for months.

This happened 3 times with that goldfish.

When it finally passed, we were all ready to let go.

So, maybe I could help this fish too?

I knelt down and she moved into my hand.

I sent Reiki energy

Myles patiently waited without interfering.

The fish seemed a little surprised.

I felt a small shift, but noticed no miracle.

So---we left her there with only a blessing

Feeling better to have done what we could.