Quest

 

I venture once again

into the place of silence
where the quest is mine alone,
and much as I might want
to talk about it, it really
has nothing to do with what I think
or what another may advise

It really has nothing to do
with making sense of things,
for I am called to go beyond sense
to where the indelible touch
has left an opening

Having felt it once
I am equipped to notice
every breath of wind across its surface,
I am impelled to meet it
and find the way in.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 27, 2022

Currently

 

I will not settle
for the usual excuses,
I will not retreat
to helplessness

This is not my battle
so I don't need to win it,
but neither will I stand by
to see it lost

The Mind we dwell in
is sovereign  -
it owns our being, it owns our thought,
and it will bear us
on comprehensive currents
so we let go our obtuseness
and are taught.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 26, 2022

Could be

 

The usual calculations
have been made, chess pieces
trotted out, arrayed,
leaders on at least one front
secretly dismayed  -
here we go again

But it could be that many hearts
are ready to see an new thing,
it could be that they're able
to cease to be the pawns.
It could be there's a way
for everyone to be surprised
to see a different, peaceful, way unfold.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 25, 2022

Delineating

 Though there is a way on paper

of drawing light with black lines,
let me not do so with my words

The page of thought is bright
and doesn't  need darkness
to delineate its inspiration

Look - I can have the Mind of Christ!
There is enough need in the world
for the lines of light to touch and heal

That healing truth, showing its presence,
defines light, defines everything.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 21, 2022

Bargain

 

It's not like you get to bargain
with death. If you give it one little wink,
it will have you. It will take you
on its own terms, not on yours

But it's not that death can win.
The enduring multiplicity of life
will keep doing as it always does,
branching out the possibilities.
Put all attention there, and you, too,
will keep on growing.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 24, 2022

Results

 

In this world of shifting shadows
things may be predicted
but nothing is promised. You can be gone
just like that
and what was the point
of everything you strove for?

Which doesn't change my practice
of putting each foot down, doesn't change
my proof-gathering sense
that what is done in love
will have results,
and love will always make sure
to take the steps needed
so the results come.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 23, 2022

Like this

 

This is how you are vindicated,
this is how you are washed clean,
this is how you are lifted

A truth bigger than your arguments,
a goodness with no argument at all,
a love that loved you
before any quid pro quo,
and loves you now
touches down, becoming
everything you ever thought about,
all you ever wanted.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 22, 2022