Clearer Sight

When I see you clear, I see

I don’t need to try to change anything,

don’t need to make you see, and then correct

some inner failing. In the light I see 

the shadows drop away, I see

they never had been painted on your being

When I see you clear, your light illumines

doubts within myself, helps them to fade,

so in your light I find my own redemption

as my criticism falls away

And though a rush of voices may rise up

to try to pull my thoughts back to the fray,

my clearer sight will overwhelm their story,

flood out the stridency, let peace prevail.

I lay aside the old urge to be right —

a worn out battle I don’t need to fight.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 15, 2016