Purge

Awaiting the cleansing

I catch myself bracing

for the onslaught of rushing water,

or is it fire? the truth so huge

it will purge me of everything

I thought was my substance, but isn’t

As if whoever that is, who braces

and anticipates, had anything

to do with me. No doubt

it will be among the first things

swept away, and then I’ll notice

that I was always

one with my creator.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 9, 2018