Why should it seem strange
that for all our differences,
what we all want
is the same?
Yet I find myself astonished
at how one truth
dissolves so many schemes,
Renders irrelevant the diets, the regimes,
the resolutions and the dogged efforts,
the striving to be marginally better,
the accusations, tit for tat, of sin,
the arguments on which approach will win —
Listen:
You are beloved,
You are accepted,
You are needed,
You belong here,
And your many gifts are priceless.
You deserve to live,
And you deserve
all you need so you can fully thrive,
And what your heart tells you is right
really is.
The moment we are each convinced of this
We leave all hurt and pain and grief
for bliss.
©Wendy Mulhern
January 9, 2013