Liberation

I made my choice

to enter

into my voice

to let my center

spin out and fill that long-time silenced space

Triumphant liberation

to shed off that mutation

the muteness I had donned

as habit - cloak tight drawn

lest I be out of tune, or out of place.

I sang!  I joined the hum

though hesitant at first,

soon, in full strength, with all the music asked

harmonic notes that joined and amplified it

a glow of sound in which we danced and basked

It soothed me, and it added to my courage

in ways I hadn’t realized I needed

It joined me to the others as our voices blended

I entered my desire and so succeeded

I look at life in humbleness and awe

Always a brightening; each day, a new “aha.”

©Wendy Mulhern
July 9. 2011