All the you there is

Close your eyes

and feel the stream, the roar

of presence — you can’t not be here,

can’t fail to be aware

Your pulse, your life, your consciousness

is strong — stronger than you think —

and pay attention:

it isn’t something that can turn off,

it isn’t something

that sometimes flows within you

There is no you without this life.

You have no inert state,

and the signal that is you 

is never weakened.

How could it be?

It’s all the you there is.

©Wendy Mulhern

November 24, 2017