I am an eager student —
I pore over the text
as meaning pours in

Something deep inside
soaks it up, stretches out,
like roots, like leaves, like wings

This is not something
for me to tuck away,
to tell myself I may use later

This is breath, this is sight,
this is the sense of things,
these are my steps along
the present path of what I am.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 27, 2019