Well, who wouldn’t delight
in the law of Life, in the law of light?
Who doesn’t thrill
with the intricacy of every interlocking need,
each interlacing gift?

Who wouldn’t be amazed
at how perfectly
all these separate entities
flock and soar together,
turn and breathe as one?

From here comes the courage
to leave behind the old story,
that’s based on conflict
and has to have an enemy
and makes its horrid bargains
and insists on being right

There’s plenty of evidence
for the goodness of everything.
It may not make a good story,
but it makes a good life.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 28, 2017