Transfiguration

It is good for us to be here,

and whatever we have brought —

our child fears, our defenses,

our adult masks, our opinions,

the scaffolding on which we’ve propped

our wobbly sense of worth —

Whatever we have brought

can sit here in this light

of what we’ve glimpsed within each other.

It can sit in that warmth,

bask in the slowly suffusing fact

that it’s forgiven. All of it.

We will fill with light till that’s all

we can see in each other,

and we will be whole.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 4, 2013