Every Living Thing

Every living thing desires

to clasp hands with another,

desires to feel the interchange of juices,

to be strengthened

by what they give

and what flows back,

to feel potentials multiply

Every living thing desires communion,

to nourish and be nourished 

by the whole,

Every living thing

fulfills the call of Life like this —

We can’t deny it —

We know what we want.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 7, 2015