Now no longer enthralled
by the currency of death
we turn to the currents of Life,
the ones that surge in quick joy
and course in steady peace

How could we not know
that this has always been our strength,
always held us up

And there was no substance in the fear
or in the threat of loss the fear was using
to hold what we most love hostage

Life is not bounded
by death, not bound
by limits, not circumscribed
by ultimatums

Life rules its own realm
and we are of it —
contiguous as ocean,
encircling as sky.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 26, 2014