So On Earth

I hesitate to put my whole weight

down on the answer,

not wanting, once again,

to feel the setback,

not, once again, to feel the back seep

of misplaced hope,

the backward look confirming

I never really launched

I hesitate, but heaven’s traces

do proclaim themselves around me.

There is goodness

everywhere there is thought.

Let me look forward,

let me be overwhelmed by evidence,

as has been promised:

as in heaven, so on earth.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 14, 2018