Influence

Let’s talk about

silence

Let’s let the rain

do the talking for us

(tapping patter and the rush of rivulets)

Let’s consider

that no raindrop 

does the falling of another

It is not my job

to influence, persuade,

not my work

to make assessments,

Not even mine

to set examples

(thinking that they really should be followed)

Mine, instead, to notice

and to magnify

that which rises freely

from its own reception

of the blessed touch of thought,

that which drops unerring

into its own purpose,

from its own source.

©Wendy Mulhern

November 14, 2015