Your Truth

You can’t resist your truth.

By and by, it will overtake you,

make you see

the countless ways

you have been wrong.

But it will hold you

in such tenderness

that you will understand

you’ve always been approved of,

always loved.

No one else can resist your truth.

Though they may try

with edicts, ultimatums,

though they may think,

since you are dear to them,

that you should hear.

In the end they will admit your truth —

That, or you will lose each other.

Like a pupa, like a harvest,

truth ripens within us.

We may not know it when it’s small

but it will grow

until the day it bursts forth,

insistent,

and the protective stories

will split apart,

no longer relevant.

And truth’s form will be surprising,

elegant,

It will stretch out in perfect grace

and claim your day.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 2, 2014