Soul Retrieval

No, no,

This is not the promise you were given

Mountains of detritus,

Self-enforced confinement

Stress and tracks of weary years

Across your face

No

This is not your course

The clock-enforced conformity

The envious and jealous stabs within

Reflexive judgement,

Passing down the curse

Of being conquered

However much the rules you’re taught

claim to control

You never could be severed

from your soul

Hold with me now

Together, let’s sing your song

It leads you back along the lines of longing

To where you've always sensed that you belong

We’ll all converge there jubilantly thronging

At home as if we never had been gone

Let our eyes now feed each other's embers

Resurrect our light so we remember

What had seemed so lost from us, so far

Who we’ve ever been

And who we are.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 14, 2012


(background music: Max Richter, "Embers")