Release

These are the orbits

in which we try

to find our life,

the circling in, 

the haphazard intersection

of some memory or dream

with what we’ve called reality,

the moments of freedom

and the hours of keeping watch,

the forced leisure

and the long waiting

This is a time which may seem long

but we’ll find a perspective

in which it was short.

We’ll find a way to move,

we’ll find a peace.

We don’t need the last good bye

to find release.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 8, 2017