We come to this place
where we have agreed
that love is presence —
that if you are here
then you are loved,
and in your love is an expansive blessing,
more than we had dared to hope for.

We understand
there will be healing —
not in the sense of change
but as in coming into wholeness,
recognizing what we’ve always been.

We come to this place as refuge
from other patterns
that we have used to think about each other.
We put those aside here,
we learn not to use them,
we forget about them entirely,
caught up, as we are —
totally transfixed —
in this way of being love.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 12, 2017