Right

I’m finished with voices

telling me to do it right

I’m finished especially with

voices telling me not to do it

because I can’t do it right

right off the bat,

such that I am left

helpless and immobilized,

waiting for someone else

to do it for me

or teach me

to do it right

For I have discovered

that if I just begin,

my action and attention

will teach me very quickly

not a rule for rightness

but the motion and awareness

that works perfectly

for right now.

©Wendy Mulhern

September 10, 2015

photo by Edward Mulhern