Weightless

And if we know

nothing we do

holds any weight,

we won’t try to sit down

on our achievements

and we won’t fall through them

wondering, as we fall

what happened — why

we weren’t supported

If we recognize

we are held up by our breath —

all we take in, all we give out,

all we see as true, and honor —

we will move lightly through the day

unmired by past or future,

nimble in the turnings of the moment.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 8, 2019