Gracefully

In graceful ways we start to learn

the things we need to know—

sovereignty, surrender,

how the two go hand in hand:

we surrender our enslavement

to be sovereign

And though it seems, at times,

like a hard, hard choice

(because we clung so long to this?

because we didn’t know another way?)

we get to make it

in little increments,

tiny pebbles dislodged from the facade

that had encased us,

till the whole thing crumbles down

and we find

that we can move

in ways we thought we only maybe dreamed

We can stretch out,

we can expand

so far beyond the former surface,

gracefully,

for this is ours to own.

©Wendy Mulhern

November 7, 2015