One Truth

Why should it seem strange

that for all our differences,

what we all want 

is the same?

Yet I find myself astonished

at how one truth

dissolves so many schemes,

Renders irrelevant the diets, the regimes,

the resolutions and the dogged efforts,

the striving to be marginally better,

the accusations, tit for tat, of sin,

the arguments on which approach will win —

Listen:

You are beloved,

You are accepted,

You are needed,

You belong here,

And your many gifts are priceless.

You deserve to live,

And you deserve

all you need so you can fully thrive,

And what your heart tells you is right

really is.

The moment we are each convinced of this

We leave all hurt and pain and grief

for bliss.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 9, 2013