Falling

 

Many will speak of
the benefit of falling,
of coming completely untethered
from all that you trusted,
of having that done for you
which you were mightily unwilling
to do for yourself

And there's truth in that,
for any trust that can be swept away
is false,
and what is truly trustworthy
is waiting for discovery
by anyone who's  secretly lucky
to have lost all else.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 8, 2023