I love your happy pictures,
your confident success
and the feeling of security
because you have arrived

What is this braided shadow
that I feel? – that everything I see here
will be shaken
one way or another,
but it will be OK

It will be shaken till you know
your worth is not dependent
on this or any other points
you have achieved

They will be shaken
but with infinite compassion
so you feel
the vastness of the blessing of your days,
that your joy is not dependent
on things that can be lost,
and your goodness what can never fade away.

©Wendy Mulhern
December 3, 2021