True Testimony

I will not argue

against myself anymore.

I will not deny

my power or my desire,

I will not take the side

of death, decline, fatigue.

I am alive,

and Life’s essence

is the one thing I must manifest

in the being of myself —

I must always move as Life moves —

growing, sheltering, blooming,

attracting, rejoicing, communing.

I separate myself

from the internal voices

that try to make me think

I desire inertia.

I am of Life,

and Life supports my being

what it is, what I am.

©Wendy Mulhern

November 25, 2013