Awake

Across the street,

I see an upper window,

across the day a light,

a leap of concord,

a resonance of consciousness,

a sense of presence,

signal of life, though no one can be seen

Within each dwelling, everywhere I look,

I feel the power,

for any one of us can transform everything.

The calm insistence on the truth

of our infinity

blows out the whole illusion

of our chains.

I see you, indeed I see you!

The great wakening is here

and we will move, astonished,

from the cruel story

into the clear.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 26, 2016