Certainties

Nothing is less certain

than these constructs

whose markers loom so large

on all our landscapes
as if all meaning were defined
by shopping

Nothing is less certain

than the empire they support

which claims its power

over everything

but has no substance —

nothing true at all

Nothing is more certain

than the hum of life —

its impulse to connect —

and how each contact

multiplies life’s joy

Nothing is more certain

than the fact that life must win

by the simple truth

of being what it is.

©Wendy Mulhern

September 27, 2014