Holding down the world

Let’s hold down the whole tarp of the world —

you at your point, me at mine, each of us

scattered like stars, like pin pricks in the fabric

There are enough of us to hold things steady,

to help them settle,

to calm the raging wrinkling crackling rippling,

keep it from being tumbled, over and over,

in the wind, keep it from ripping ragged

We hold it down in peace. We hold it

in unruffled knowing

that everything opposing

just really wants

to curl up and be cuddled,

just wants

acceptance in the Allness,

and the confidence

that there’s no need for fighting anymore

We’ll hold down the world

until it lies still,

until it rests velvet

along the contours of its love.

©Wendy Mulhern

October 4, 2019