All the same

This may seem infinitely different

but it is all the same,

the binding loops of fear

are not distinct, there is no

relative virtue in the systems

that hold us down — one pathology

is just as haunting

as another

We can find comfort, then, perhaps,

in what we share,

stop putting ourselves down,

forgive each other,

and in the space that makes,

we’ll come to see

it is the same release

that frees us all.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 7, 2020