Close your eyes
and feel the stream, the roar
of presence — you can’t not be here,
can’t fail to be aware

Your pulse, your life, your consciousness
is strong — stronger than you think —
and pay attention:
it isn’t something that can turn off,
it isn’t something
that sometimes flows within you

There is no you without this life.
You have no inert state,
and the signal that is you
is never weakened.
How could it be?
It’s all the you there is.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 24, 2017