No Regrets

No regrets

for life falls like water

down its course —

The same law always pulls us,

The same law always rights us —

What we choose in any instant

is the product

of precisely where we were,

and from precisely where we are

we always choose

what seems essential

No regrets —

in the wild space of now,

suspended in air,

in vapor or in free fall,

in current or in back flow,

or sucked up in the taproot of a plant,

We still are held

in Life’s law,

and Life will always see us through.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 21, 2013