Heaven

(Creative Etymology)

If heaven is the breathing of everything,

the generous heave of the earth,

the inspiration, the release

across the days, the months,

the seasons,

the ever-cycling peace,

the renewal that comes back around,

inciting curls of growth,

currents rising and branching,

sending new life ever outward,

ever inward

Then it is heaven

to move just like this,

in concert with the breathing

of earth and sea, of sky and stars,

where everything has room

for its own unfolding,

where everything is held

and everything is free.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 3, 2016