What’s required of us
is not the yoke
of dutiful responsibility —

It’s the electric catching,
from fingertips and all awakened skin,
from eye-lights and light answers from within
of all the joy that fills this air, this place

Our light is required —
all of it —
in each dimension of our being,
all our hearing, all our seeing,
all we rise to meet,
all we live to prove,
all that comes to presence from our love.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 1, 2014