Strength

Realizing today

(balancing along on a curb,

wind blowing through the city,

clouds clearing)

that strength is in cohesion,

capacity to spread the load

along a span, to share

the impact

Sensitized

in the unity that sends

the darting signal coursing,

wing tip to wing tip, humming

down the bow-taut curves,

every inch in tune,

harmonized, alive

Strength is not in isolation,

not in hardness, not in standing out

amidst a crowd —

It’s in the giving of one’s currents

to the whole, the glad surrender

of one’s atoms

to the grand red rover

of oneness with the team.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 9, 2014