There is no place for fear
here where we have embraced everything,
where we have acknowledged
that no one lives outside
the great benevolence,
No one gets stranded
in pain and grief

Every tear-attended passage
is lit by the soft reflection
of the ever-tended love
that marks us holy,
the Love that is the author
of us all.

©Wendy Mulhern
October 20, 2015