Always start beside deep water

Let your beginnings be rooted in rivers.

For chances are,

You will be back here again.

Stronger

Wiser.

But back all the same.

Tired and thirsty.

And instead of lessons in discipline,

And lectures in progression,

What you will really need

Is water.

Bathe and drink

Rest.

And as you gather courage

To begin again,

Know oasis has been prepared in grace

For your returning self.