Here where you are,
as you are held,
nothing can jostle
your settled being

No shock nor growl
can stop the steady purring
of your confidence,
your centered peace

Not even a thousand
murmuring grumblers,
self-justified and full of disapproval,
can ever touch you

Even if it seems like
they got inside
and are screaming at you
from within —
they can’t —
they aren’t you, and never have been

Here where you are
in the Principle that holds you
you are always safe.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 5, 2017