Achieving Peace

It comes down to a few things

that can’t be claimed by sects

or ideologies

Comes down to things

that can’t be argued over,

for their truth is not in words,

but felt in bones, and breath

and flesh, held in hearts

and known, thus, to be sound

Comes down to kindness,

comes down to kinship —

being kind, being of a kind —

It amounts to the same thing,

as long as it’s seen to be

without limits, without exclusion,

binding us into one basket,

one vessel, one Soul.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 24, 2015