We start drinking
life water —
We take it in
with our eyes
and our pores,
We feel light,
We feel strong

We drink truth like water —
Truth that cleanses us
from all the years’ deposits
of calcified projections,
judgement, disapproval,
years of manipulations —
all those vain attempts
to make us be machinery,
polished on the outside,
programed,
silent

We drink life water
and feel the eager
expansion of our minds,
the bright embrace
of our reawakening —
Our breath, our limbs
now so responsive
to what impels us
from within.

©Wendy Mulhern
July 20, 2014