Emptiness

Only things that can receive

can be empty.

Consider this, O hearts, O arms —

The grand capacity of your design

How expertly you have been made

To hold, to take in

shelter and contain

To heal, embrace,

and then release again

To empty, fill, and so engage

in life, the grand enacting of creation

Exultant in its endless generation.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 27, 2012

(Picture: Jennifer McCurdy, "Gilded Vortex Vessel"; photo by Gary Mirando; background music: Max Richter, "From the Rue Villin")