We may prepare for the Apocalypse,
may prepare for many —
fortified and settled in, stocked up
and battened down

We could prepare for the Apocalypse
of flood, of fire, of drought, of cold,
yet the Apocalypse is not what’s ripped away,
but what’s revealed when everything is gone

Hence the preparation of the heart,
not to survive so much as how to be alive,
to see beyond the veil
of all the worry, judgment, dread,
to what, when all is finished, will remain.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 11, 2018