Flesh

I will see God

in my own flesh,

I will know in my body

that I am healed

I will feel the truth

in that most intimate way

where my body speaks

and my so-called mind

is taken entirely by surprise

and must surrender

to the imperative

presented in the moment

This experience

will not be co-opted —

though I seek to reproduce it,

touching flesh together

to re-enact the spark,

constructing circumstances

to replay the moment,

building fantasies to lead me back

I will at last be led

to the Spirit source

that owns everything

I can feel or know,

that wakes up everything

— heart, soul, flesh —

to exaltation,

to the mystery of Life.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 10, 2015

photo by Edward Mulhern