Let me wake up to presence
and feel the substance of it,
how it fills up everything —
time and space and consciousness

Let me feel how presence
is both mine and its own,
how it speaks to me,
how I embody it

See? I can’t be absent
any more than presence can be gone,
and I can’t fail to dwell in presence,
the all, the law, of here.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 28, 2018