Finding a way

Let’s find the ways

that we can fit together.

Let’s find how we are family

And how a little shifting of presuppositions

Will let our odd-shaped pieces

find a way to mesh.

It’s easy enough

to be all elbows

and bony knees,

But we have soft curves, too,

where we can empathize and understand

And this,

This warm, accommodating mass,

Is what we really, really want

More than being on top,

More than being right.

©Wendy Mulhern

April 4, 2013