So many people

So many people go through life

without ever having written a symphony,

without ever doing a cartwheel,

without ever knowing what it feels like

to be free

So many people (or so it’s said)

have never known true love,

have never felt the exaltation

of the egoless willingness

to be a blessing

and having that fulfilled

People go through life

buying expectations for themselves

from the shelves of sanctioned social options,

wearing them, though they don’t fit,

eating them, though they don’t nourish,

hardly noticing the pressure of the light within

as it attempts to free itself and shine

But by and by

the light will win,

spill out of some chink,

overwhelm them

as it bursts forth

revealing all the vastness of their being

where they don’t go through life —

they really live.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 14, 2014