Changes

Though we had imagined

a grand falling

attended, perhaps, by fire

and much bloodshed —

courageous sacrifice

to stand against the roaring maw —

and finally, colossal crashing,

followed by

a slow and tenuous rebuilding,

In the end

it was more a transformation,

a subtle redefining, a soft shifting,

something felt within the bones,

which then was seen in a great clearing —

dissolving of a shroud

(to our astonishment)

that we, up to that point,

had thought was sky —

And all the things

that never quite made sense

were then revealed

and so we claimed our place,

regenerated, healed.

© Wendy Mulhern

June 12, 2013