One Touch

Cradle me, let your arms

be a touchpoint, take me back

to where I don’t remember

but feel like I could —

This holding that shows me

that I am beloved,

my perfect belonging

wholly assured 

(If there is one body

then there is one touch

that all of us yearn for 

and each one can give)

No need to settle

for that which is partial,

provisional, grudging,

for sometime acceptance

Let this touch assure you, too,

that you have always 

been welcome here.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 14, 2018