Reset

And how do we do reset?

When the threads of our efforts

are tangled beyond redemption,

when there’s no path in

for anything we might say?

Shall we do reset like fall, like winter,

everything thrown into rain and wind,

coherence abandoned,

distracted into the silence

of going down and down, in and in?

Or shall we do reset 

like chocolate? —

signature sweetness clearing our palates,

spreading to fill the unnamed hole within

Shall we look and notice

our smiles still find each other,

our hopes still run eagerly

to meet in the well-known fields

of our conversation

Shall we do reset without effort —

simply returning

with new attention

to what is always here.

©Wendy Mulhern

October 30, 2016