Growing New

We made the choice

And where we could have called ourselves

Bundles of opinions

Past experiences, scars

Perspectives narrowed 

through the jarring course of years

Piles of restrictions growing larger daily

Needing soft accommodation for their weight

Instead we have decided on this:

To serve whatever is alive in us

To always focus on what’s growing

Leaving, rigorously, everything that’s dead behind —

opinions, patterns, prejudice —

And learning, every day

to be more supple

Should it then come as a surprise

to see our love so shining?

So new, so eager, so alive —

with grace and bliss entwining.

©Wendy Mulhern

September 22, 2012