There is no easy path
There is no glib path
and when you go under
into the dark and twisted course
that brings you to the depths,
you go alone

No one can go through the fire for you
And no one, like you,
will be lit up by that singular glow
found only at the concentrated core
— heart of everything —

Your light is like none other,
like no one else’s.
It’s your integrity
that compels you
to take the dive,
It’s your integrity
that brings you out alive.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 30, 2014