I am with you
because we have found a way
to gather, as a thing distilled,
in the condensing places
where whatever mattered
from our words, and from our efforts,
what we noticed, what we cared about,
is concentrated in the quiet that we sit with
and shines the crystal brightness
of what’s true

I am with you
through and after all our struggles
because, willing or not,
we have been pressed to this purity.
Having come this far,
nothing else makes sense.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 9, 2018