While some are struggling
to be alive, others
are struggling to be real

It is the same struggle —
though it may seem poles apart,
it is the same need

And while some may envy others their ease,
and others may not know to envy
the vitality that rises from the quick
when the cut is close to the bone

In the end they will be saved
in the same flood of light.
It may even feel to them
like they saved each other.
This is the nature of the blessing.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 3, 2018