Wild

It doesn’t matter

when and how it started—

those first moments of the inner wildness,

The ones that stirred you

till you had to notice

Once you noticed

you had to pay attention

Once you paid attention

it had to grow

and will

Till suddenly it overthrows the systems

Colossal though they are,

and comprehensive, and entrenched

that claimed to rule you for so very long

Those systems have no power

against inexorable wildness

that always follows

the laws of your true essence

You will never again be tame

and you will know 

that being good

has nothing to do with following someone else’s rules

and everything to do with being you.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 16, 2012