Continuing

And life asserts itself

unendingly, with patience and with joy,

in baby ducks and beavers

and herons on the wing

and that blackbird

with its exultant warble

in the late afternoon sun

that still reaches it, there in the treetop

Life continues, in dating and in weddings,

in friends confiding in each other,

in families, in passing generations

And we will, too,

affection being the most important thing —

we’ll hold it tenderly

and we will rise.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 25, 2018