Imagining

I’m imagining us, not too long hence,

walking hand in hand

though in the vision

it’s more like streaming light,

all of us grateful

to have been brought together

I imagine us streaming like that

all the time — then I consider

you will have others, too,

others to share and celebrate

and so will we

and the whole thing

will be so much grander

than I can think up

So I’ll just bask in the warmth of it,

how it comforts me and holds me up

right here and now.

©Wendy Mulhern

March 10, 2019