How convenient it is
for me to croon about
holding angel presence
and moving out beyond a place of need
to a place where I can stand and give and heal!
How cherry-picked the role
of one whose challenges
have all been overcome,
who then can share her wisdom
to the good of all the world!
How bogus to imagine
I could somehow cease to need,
when Life has set us
in this web of caring,
where every strand
is tied up with the others,
so that we breathe and rise and fall together.
And I, I’ve fallen prey
to this same trap before
and laughed about it afterwards,
as if that time I’d finally
outgrown the childish tendency
and wouldn’t be so foolish anymore.
Ah! Have mercy!
Please forgive me, be my friend —
Hold me up precisely when I’m laughable,
Keep your vision of me
based on what your wisdom holds,
Now and when I tumble here again.
©Wendy Mulhern
February 27, 2013