Epiphany

    You don’t have to wait for joy

It’s not contingent

on conditions

things you need to do to earn it

strings of power others hold, 

gurus, teachers, texts to learn it

being not too young or old

You don’t have to wait for joy

It doesn’t hinge

on times and tasks that need to come together

or alignment of the stars and weather

It’s here

Sure as you are

Illusion’s claims will never

of their own accord

let you off the hook

They’ll always book another thing

you have to wait for first

But you don’t have to wait for joy

Here:

It’s here

Sure as you’re alive

Close as your daily breath.

©Wendy Mulhern

October 1, 2011

(background music, Isaac Shepard, "Elation")