Lifelines

Many years ago,

a dozing vision told me,

“You have a lifeline to a star.”

I sat up, alert, obscurely comforted

that any chasm I might face 

could hold no threat

and that no danger loomed

of finding my life dull and flat

I had a lifeline to a star!

and it would lift me up

across light years and eons

to my dreams

Little did I know

I have so many lifelines —

distant stars the least of them —

right here

Wind touched willow singing in the sun,

Gentle currents sliding softly,

All the gems of eyes that can connect

are lifelines holding everything together

I move and feel them pull against my chest

Inviting me to heft them, find their swing

and catapult myself

in heady, death defying joy

hand over hand along their awesome web

through this bright day.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 11, 2012