Power

Listen,

You have the power:

You can always do

what you want

You are the power —

You can bring your light

into the world

You feel the power,

vibrant and decisive voice within

that lets you know

what you are here to do,

how to begin

and how to follow through

and how to win

the realization of your grandest vision.

Though you have heard real life consists

of mostly doing things your heart resists,

it is not true,

For here and now

the life that ever brings you forth

aligns you with your joy

and seals your worth.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 30, 2014

about this poem:

I was walking home from the post office this morning around seven, in the predawn light where early blue began to separate from layered gray, thinking about chem trails and surveillance and the poisoning of the earth, and I realized that these things can only be done if people do them.  And that people probably realize they don’t want to do these things, so the one thing that can heal the earth is our realizing we don’t need to do things we don’t want to do. A revolutionary thought, with far-reaching implications . . .