Can you feel what holds you
as well as these birds can,
diving and darting fearlessly
from the tall trees?

Can you feel it bear you up? —
such a gentle touch, with room for air
between your feathers —
room for you to breathe
but not to fall

Hold still, and see if you can feel it
guiding your steps, your work, your thoughts,
ever in the place where the bright surge
of joy, of life,
pours clearest through your being.

©Wendy Mulhern
July 30, 2018