A Place

There is a place for you,

an ever present opening

in the dynamic slipstream

of the now

There is a way for you to enter

and be fully integrated

in the endless flow

of life supporting life

There is a welcoming

whose chords touch every harp string

of your being, sending the chiming

of your life song

rolling out and out along the hills

There is a need for you,

and where you are

the need is met.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 22, 2015

Surrender again

Here I am again

considering infinity

and the swift intake of breath

that meets the deep cold plunge

of surrender

Here I am

releasing my impressions and opinions

and the sense of things

I held so hard as true

Here I am falling

into the sky

where the searing immensity

of what can be healed

shimmers all around.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 21, 2015

Severance

I will pay quickly

I will end my connection

and walk away

I will not be involved

anymore

I have paid dearly

for my blindness, for my

neglect to heed the subtle signs

But the price, perhaps,

is not that bad

Perhaps in this failure to find trust

I have learned to place it

on sounder ground —

Perhaps in this severance

of dubious dependence

I build a firmer trust 

within myself.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 19, 2015

Seeing the Salvation

Stand still, for you won’t need

to fight in this battle. Not this one.

For your perception

will be lifted up. And none of the triggers

will even register

You will see that your work is 

to stand clear in the Allness —

the comprehensive Love that buffers 

each collision course with kindness, 

makes each intersection blessed, 

each impact blessing

You won’t need to fight in this battle.

Stand still, and let your view expand

until you see the circle’s sweet return,

until you hold the whole.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 18, 2015

Spring Comes

It may seem chaotic

but there is one force pulling us all

And the intelligence 

with which we’re all connected

can accommodate

every single need

This grand dance goes on

in every scale of size —

within the galaxies of molecules

and in the tensile tug of stars

And we can feel it

in the way we slide together

and the kinetic transfer

of exhilaration

We can feel it in the stillness

where the interlocking circles

find perfect balance

all along the endless chain of life.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 17, 2015

You’ll Know

Just as a certain breath

brings forth a flute’s sweet tone,

a certain stroke

the crystal bowl’s hum,

just as a harmony locks in

to where it thrills you to the bone,

When you find home

you’ll know.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 16, 2015

Solace and Comfort

Ah, we pin our hopes on each other,

we reach out our hands

as if two bodies in free fall

could hold each other up

We will give solace

and we will receive comfort

but not from here —

Not where we set up the slate of conditions,

the changes required, the needs to be met,

Not in the stories that cast us so poignantly

into the dramas that make people cry

We will give solace

and receive comfort

here in the consciousness

deeper than stories,

where everyone wants the same thing —

A thing whose abundance

is never diminished,

a source whose beneficence 

comforts us all.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 15, 2015