We Are Home

There will be no pretending,

no playacting,

no terrified attempts

to be someone who knows

how to move, what to do,

what to decide.

There will be no more skittering

unmoored across the surface

of what calls itself our life,

no more posturing

in efforts to appear to be

someone who has arrived.

We are here.

(as clouds that momentarily disperse reveal)

We have been here for a long time

And we have always owned ourselves

And we know how to move

and what to do

and how to nourish things

and make them grow,

and how to bless,

how to be whole.

There will be no pretending,

for we are home.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 17, 2013