Protection

We need to put our heads together

and entwine our arms,

make a structure,

an impervious protection,

need to spread it largely out —

over everyone, in fact —

to hold us safe,

hold us all within

So when that old corkscrewing vortex

comes hurtling, twisting through

with its cold insinuation,

“what’s the point of you?”

we will each know

it has no toehold

in our sense of what is true,

and that old lie

will simply fall away.

©Wendy Mulhern

November 17, 2018