What’s required here
is to not be distracted —
The same old hand waves,
of course, will be employed,
and the frantic flashings
of threatened loss
if things should go a certain way.
You’re right to be on edge, we’re told —
The stakes are high

But none of this is true.

The only thing required
is to maintain the steady focus
of what puts us here, of what
maintains our being

The only thing required
is to be quite sure
of our inheritance —
the substance that outweighs the world.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 24, 2015