Before all that

Today I think of presence
not as something with me,
but as the very fact of my existence

Wonder it is that I see,
that I breathe, and that I have,
before all that, the great desire of being,
the hope, the love, all that waits
before the me I call myself arises
to greet the morning - all that cares so deeply
about something before what I define
as daily life -

I call it presence.
I step back into it
and go out with peace.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 27, 2020