Singularity

The evil beast will get you if it can.

Bear in mind:

It doesn’t have your interests at heart.

If you plea for lenience,

if you consent

to be at its mercy,

if you let it choose the rules,

it won’t choose in a way that favors you.

Stand up! It’s in your nature

to set the boundaries for your life,

to determine who you are

and what your heart designs.

It isn’t your nature

(despite the claims the beast intensely makes)

to let external arguments

define your place.

It may use a smooth and syrupy voice,

but never think

that what you want is sleep,

that you prefer to let what’s done to you

define you.

You know who you are

and you are called, right here, right now

to be that being,

to live your own unique, exquisite truth,

to hold firm in your singular perception

that balances the turning of the world.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 31, 2013