It comes down to a few things
that can’t be claimed by sects
or ideologies

Comes down to things
that can’t be argued over,
for their truth is not in words,
but felt in bones, and breath
and flesh, held in hearts
and known, thus, to be sound

Comes down to kindness,
comes down to kinship —
being kind, being of a kind —
It amounts to the same thing,
as long as it’s seen to be
without limits, without exclusion,
binding us into one basket,
one vessel, one Soul.

©Wendy Mulhern
July 24, 2015