Legacy

for me and you, and for our parents

You don’t need to be sorry

about your legacy

You needn’t doubt

the impartation of your gifts

These things have never stood

on your performance, your success or failure

Sure as the stars

The light of your being

has sent its beams

and the continuity

of your essence

still streams

steadfast across light years

timeless and unchanged

Whatever gifts you tried to package

Tried, with fumbling hands

to deliver to your children

Whatever they have said

or misconstrued

or failed to see

Your light has always shone on, true

And always shone, as pure

in their bright being

Nothing you have done

could dim it

Nothing you didn’t do

could ever let it fail

It’s what you are

that blesses them

that always has —

Not something you determined —

Something that was given you

before the world began

as it was given them

Rest easy 

for your love

has ever been enough.

©Wendy Mulhern

April 19, 2012