There is a voice that speaks
without needing words,
without needing sound,
but which you hear
earth-shifting deep
in the self you’ve only hoped
could somehow be you

You hear it like a crack in your core,
pouring out unimagined light,
expanding your perspective
to where every pre-established limit
is gone, and even the notion
that life could be organized
in shapes of struggle and lack
is fully silenced
in this new truth

There is no way
to shut out this voice,
because it’s already inside you
and it has already spoken.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 19, 2020