None of the things we brought with us
were what we needed.
How, after all, could we have predicted
this place, this world?
How could we have known
none of our hard-learned lessons,
our expectations, our opinions,
our conclusions
would have weight?
No matter,
for we still had what we needed.
It was in us
all along.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 1, 2013