Disabused

This day has had surprise gifts in it,

just when I’d trained myself

not to expect any. But that,

as it turns out, is today’s humbling —

Life takes me down a peg or two

by offering tangible things

to make me happy,

proving I don’t need to go it alone

And my belief that I did

was making too much of myself —

I needed to be disabused of that presumption.

I can’t say I mind.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 5, 2019