My Final Offer

There is no part of my desire

that I’m willing to give up.

I insist on all the goodness

that I crave:

The part about the living land

and our deep kinship with it;

The part about our well-honed gifts

and all the richness shared in their fruition;

The part about our home

and all the others who live with us;

The part about the healing of the earth;

All these must be included

in the goodness we acquire,

No part may be excluded from the vision.

I won’t agree to any less

and so it must be given.

©Wendy Mulhern

June 27, 2013