My life depends
on my getting this right.
Not as in
I’ll die if I don’t
so much as that
I live when I do,
really live.
Which means that life itself
will thrive around me
and give me life
just as I give to it,
And I will move within the brightness
of the being that fulfills me —
brings out my essence
as I bring it forth.
It is given
that I’ll get it right,
If not in every case,
at least in moments,
which then must grow
till they’re the only kind —
the bracing breath
on which my life depends.
©Wendy Mulhern
June 11, 2013