Everyone Gets to Come

Don’t be afraid —

Don’t look ahead in dread

of narrowing life choices,

of chances missed.

It doesn’t matter —

for in the plan of days,

Everyone gets to come.

To the grand reception

of our timeless gifts,

to the celebration

of what we’ve always been,

to the home that holds us

splendid and beloved,

Everyone gets to come.

In the great rapture

of interaction in the moment,

in that enchanting weightlessness

where you can’t tell for sure

if the impulse comes from you

or from another

(though it is yours as surely as you feel it)

In the joy of that transporting,

far beyond what you could know to ask for,

Everyone gets to come.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 16, 2013