Clear

Let me lay down the confusion

that has beset my years,

let me recognize

our lives were never about this

We are not tokens, moved along a board,

we are not pawns nor rooks nor queens

nor even players.

The realm we move in

has always been the infinite —

not mind within the body

but body in the mind —

our consciousness reveals

the size of what we are

It may be hard

to come to this life knowing,

and have the knowing steadily displaced.

We won’t be always fooled,

we will shine clear,

and what we are will surface in our days.

©Wendy Mulhern

September 25, 2018