Present

It stops being a thing you are trying to do.
It becomes a present fact,
the sun touched moment
a reveal of something timeless,
something always  –
the truth of now’s perfection
enduring through eternity,
and you realize
you never need to leave.

©Wendy Mulhern
October 4, 2023

2 thoughts on “Present

  1. So beautiful

    I’ve been struggling to understand “ everlasting “ and why it’s desirable. This summer I am beginning. It’s being suspended in a moment so full of love or awe that one never wishes the moment to end. That eternal moment never does.
    This poem helps my quest !

    • Yes! And recognizing that time is just a way of looking at stuff, but Love knows all of each of us – what we think of as different stages of our development – at once.

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