What you most need

No one can give you

what you most need,

No one can take it away

All of the agonies

trying to gain it,

bargaining for it,

hope and despair,

All of the stories

lamenting the missing it,

All of the sorries, 

good bye, don’t care . . . 

All these will fall away

empty and weightless,

replaced with the clarity

true all along:

What you most need

has always been with you,

steady through all of those doors —

Tell me the riddle

and how you have answered it,

Now that you own what is yours.

©Wendy Mulhern

October 18, 2014