Confluence

Freedom and oneness:

the only way to really

have both of them

is if you have an absolute

confluence of desires,

if in the song of what you want,

all the chords blend in their perfection,

producing new, delicious, haunting tones,

if all the rhythms

set each other off

in joyful syncopation

and all the melodies

chase each other down in bliss,

leaping and rolling,

surging and soaring

And this is how it is

for all of us

in the secret chamber

of what we want.

This, in its various ways

sparks all our quests

and so we can conclude

that it is here.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 7, 2017

photo by Edward Mulhern