The light keeps brightening
as we remove the layers —
what once was dim and fickle
becomes a stronger flicker,
becomes a steady glow,
becomes a blaze

We will drink this light
like flowing water,
we will be borne
in its currents,
we will rise like bubbles,
all that we thought defined us
fully forgotten
in our daily learning,
in our daily flight.

©Wendy Mulhern
July 29, 2017