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
July 9. 2011