Forgiven

 

More important than feeling better
would be the gift of knowing
you are fundamentally sound,
incapable of having something wrong with you,
approved of to your deepest core,
delighted in, to each extremity,
illumined such that no dark shadow  -
disappointment, or even disenchantment  -
could ever fall across you.
That, certainly, would be a reason
to rise, take up your bed, and walk.

©Wendy Mulhern
October 2, 2023

Overcome

 

This is just the beginning  -
new sense lending new sight,
truth always there - now known,
what this knowing gives rise to

I've been remembering
how love's currents feel inside me,
the rippling light streaming through,
opening me up, my willing
flowing following after where it leads

I've been thinking
of the other places this applies  -
all of them - what gets swept away,
but more importantly
what shines forth in its place.
Indeed, the world
is completely overcome.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 30, 2023

Traveling

 

Another day of moving through the holy place
of people traveling - me along with them,
immersing in the river of their efforts
and their individuality  -  how they are loved,
and how they long for love,
how their love is hidden, and how it shows

I travel smooth, I travel filled with joy,
for all of us are hoping to be seen,
and everyone I truly see
elates my heart,
and in that seeing,
I am fully blessed.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 29, 2023

Sweetness

 

Each of us grasps at the sweet threads –
filaments of possibility  –
hoping they will pull us
into the deep source

They trail from hopes, from stories,
which tell of how to catch them,
but if we fail to win the stories’ ending,
there’s no need to despair –
those endings may deliver fine true love,
but the sweetness also is right here,
and we can feel it everywhere.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 28, 2023

Intelligence

 

In being aware of intelligence everywhere,
I feel at peace and companioned.
All of these trees are making their choices,
all of these grasses,
all of these insects,
choosing their paths as intelligence leads them,
feeling the joy that it gives

All of these people are miracles,
webs of awareness, makers of points of view,
each one the center of marvelous stories,
each with an I AM that's true.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 27, 2023

Afternoon walk

 

The wind at the tail of the storm
catches me up in excitement,
quick steps of the onset of fall
bring memories rich with delight

Someone, perhaps, has arrived here
in the sweet mix of coming home,
and coming to a favorite place
outside of their daily routine

I am a visitor, outside of time,
I walk here and freely imagine
that, much like the scent of fall leaves on the wind,
I can take in how they might feel.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 26, 2023

The past, redeemed

 

I get that stupid moments from my past -
ungainly words, unhealing silences,
don't need to send a wound
down through my presence

We all deserve to be forgiven
for being out of touch, and for revealing it,
caught in the embarrassment
of our obtuseness,
tumbling suddenly
from what we thought was grace

While no resolve can guarantee
that I'll do better,
this truth I have discovered:
my acuity can't navigate
these fraught relations,
but Love, with ample grace,
smooths everything

And all of us are loved enough
that we can shine it to each other,
and innocently manifest the wisdom
that lets us share our love as we intend.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 25, 2023