In this time of shadows,
how shall we measure progress?
the competing accounts
of cause and effect
point to different courses,
different outcomes. And the lack
of referents obscures the sense
of if we’re even moving
and whether winds are stronger
or the currents

So we do what we do
in this moment, what seems right,
and we wait, without being able
to say what we’re waiting for,
only knowing
that when we know, we’ll know.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 27, 2018