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In the end

it doesn’t matter

who you thought you were

or why you thought you couldn’t —

Your light outshines the shapes you made 

for it to show through

You dazzle us

which meets your deep design

not engineered by recoil or by intellect

but by an essence

eons older than you think you are

So there

You’ve done it

and the echoes of our shared delight

reverberate in bliss

so now you know

you didn’t need to worry

This is who you’ve always been

This is who you are.

©Wendy Mulhern

October 25, 2011

(Background music: Isaac Shepard, "Lull Goodbye")