We find ourselves
in the presence of
— this —
which we do have power
to understand
(despite assertions,
hard and furious,
dogged and insistent,
that we do not)

We feel this
like an elixir
that pours into us
continually
filling us up and flowing over,
constantly glowing
in unexpected light

And we don’t need to say
if it comes from us
or from another —
Yes it wells up within
(more full and sudden
than we would imagine) —
and yes, it is response
to something we have seen
outside ourselves —

We can move in this,
we can live it —
And we must,
(as we always have,
though often in rebellion
or in guilt or in confusion)
Through all the obfuscation
we still will find it
for nothing can deprive us
of our truth.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 14, 2014