Oh, you have been good
You have been so, so good,
fighting through for all those deadlines,
pluckily plugging on . . .

But even more than that,
You are good —
Good in the way that makes the wind
want to help you, the sky
want to halo you, the sun
count you as kin,
even when you’re sleeping,
even before
you’ve turned everything in.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 17, 2014