Cause

We’re only a layer away

from the bright cause that animates us all,

only a layer, only a letting go

of what we now reflexively react to

Only the choice not to be caught up

in any of these urgent

cause and effect loops,

only the choice

to begin at the beginning,

right here, right now,

caused by nothing else

but what we are.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 9, 2018