After a while
we started to think we wanted
that one bright slice of day
we couldn’t have

We began to tire
of building our time around it
though it was quite reasonable —
Who, after all, is free
of all obligations?

And even if we were free,
the same discontent
that dogs us now
would nibble around our edges
in some other way
and try to take
this same kind of chomp
out of our satisfaction.

So no. Regroup and reconsider.
The victory, the release,
will not be from demanded time,
but from the sense of deprivation.
We can always have enough.
We are always given
just what we need.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 10, 2017