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and in solitude,

how shall one pursue the baubles

and the light that comes

from their exchange?

but in multitude,

the jostling shifting

of everyone’s efforts,

how can one find and proffer

the right one?

it’s easy enough to go home

without having said anything,

without engaging,

easy enough to say

one didn’t need it, anyway,

or didn’t need it here

if there’s a whole other being,

a light inducing, producing,

seducing incandescence,

luminescence from within

all satisfying,

it still should serve

to lead to bright connections,

not wean one from them,

don’t you think?

©Wendy Mulhern

April 12, 2016