Fruits

We each have struggled,

each have been isolated

and felt our path was long and hard

and that we’d failed somehow

to gain what we had hoped for

and thought had been expected of us

We had failed

or been let down

in some cruel twist or some trick test —

so many promises

left unfulfilled

But look at us here —

We’ve all come to this place

where we are bathed

in a glow cast by our own light.

We haven’t failed —

All this time

we were each following our own course

along the unerring imperative

that now dissolves all that darkness,

revealing our sweet fruits.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 17, 2015