Timeless newness

The wonder of the place

makes you forget stuff,

transfixed, as you are,

with translucency,

suffused with a sense of

the utmost importance,

the tenderest smallness,

of you here now,

you as you never have known yourself

but glimpse that you always have been

You find you forget stuff,

but nothing that matters —

wounds fall away,

and old disappointments,

explanations and excuses, too,

in this timeless 

newness of you.

©Wendy Mulhern

April 15, 2019