Juice

We find ourselves

in the presence of 

— this —

which we do have power

to understand

(despite assertions,

hard and furious,

dogged and insistent,

that we do not)

We feel this

like an elixir

that pours into us

continually

filling us up and flowing over,

constantly glowing

in unexpected light

And we don’t need to say

if it comes from us

or from another —

Yes it wells up within

(more full and sudden

than we would imagine)

and yes, it is response

to something we have seen

outside ourselves —

We can move in this,

we can live it —

And we must,

(as we always have,

though often in rebellion

or in guilt or in confusion) —

Through all the obfuscation

we still will find it

for nothing can deprive us

of our truth.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 14, 2014