Inside

We are all pure inside,

We are all innocent.

The raging game of blame,

justification, tallies of offenses,

indignation,

the cringing battles fought within

about the way things went

and what they could have been,

the cover stories, image and bravado

are all just cloaks

and superficial froth

that hide the truth

that we are pure inside

And some of us, for some of us

will have a miracle of insight

to find the door, to take the path,

to wend their way inside

and with their touch reveal

each other’s innocence,

releasing that bright truth 

to light each other

and, perhaps, the world.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 29, 2014