The Nature of the Blessing

While some are struggling

to be alive, others

are struggling to be real

It is the same struggle —

though it may seem poles apart,

it is the same need

And while some may envy others their ease,

and others may not know to envy

the vitality that rises from the quick

when the cut is close to the bone

In the end they will be saved

in the same flood of light.

It may even feel to them

like they saved each other.

This is the nature of the blessing.

©Wendy Mulhern

March 3, 2018