It only takes a grain,
for if you even once
sense one true thing,
you won’t forget it

It will be there in its difference
from everything you’ve ever thought,
and it will trace itself
like light lines
all along your consciousness
until you realize
this is something you have always known

It will keep claiming your attention
till it changes
all the ways you think,
till its new logic
renders past assumptions
foolish and absurd

You won’t look back,
for you will find this new perspective
so precious as to be your very breath.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 11, 2020