There is no way
(boxes within boxes,
sea bottom, barnacles)
you can close off
the deep bright light within you
(white brilliance, color sparkles)
no way you can keep it
from burning through all the barriers,
no way they can stop it
from claiming its source and home
in the infinite light it is one with,
the ever luminescent truth.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 10, 2018
I ask the Spirit of all that is,
all that I know to be true,
to deliver me to where
it’s not irresponsible
to be fearless,
where it’s not ignorant
to be unalarmed,
where none of those accusing voices
have any relevance at all
In the name of
all that I’ve ever lived for,
let me recognize
the power and will of Life
to hold us precious,
perfect as we are,
eternal, pure.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 2, 2018
In the moment of unweighting,
in the moment of release from all the cogs,
in the moment of perceiving
what puts us here,
some observations bear a mention:
The flash of infinity
is like light
The rush of freedom
is exhilaration bordering on terror
A racing moment has more ticks
than I can count
Everything is possible,
no protocols have to be followed
In the moment of noticing
how this perception changes everything,
there is power. There is power
and there is peace.
©Wendy Mulhern
January 31, 2018
We get to the point
where pretending we have magic
does no good at all
And pretending we have power
and pretending that we’re unafraid
will fail us quickly
(Not to say we don’t have magic,
not to say we don’t have power,
not to say we have no basis
to be fearless)
Just to say pretending
has never been enough.
That’s why I’m not talking
right now.
©Wendy Mulhern
January 4, 2018
We will do this even though
we don’t know how it will be done.
We will ignore the many voices
telling ways they know that it will fail
We will do this because
it is the one thing that can prove to us
we are here, and we are not pretending
From the depths of each of us
we’ll bring our capacity to know the truth,
and we’ll see the truth together,
rolling into awareness like some grand dawn,
evoking cries of wonder
from all who see it
This understanding
will unify and strengthen
what we are together
and what we are alone.
©Wendy Mulhern
January 3, 2018
The magnitude of this redemption
is that it glows through all time
even as dawn
glows through all our space,
even as the radiance of love
makes everything alright,
even our history.
Any fears and sorrows that lurked there
are resolved,
for truth’s appearance
alters the past
as surely as it does the present
As for the future —
what will we know of it?
— when we are so rapt
in the presence
of unfolding day.
©Wendy Mulhern
December 30, 2017
I’m going to tell you some things
that get down to the deepest
level of thought,
the place where cause and effect
are calculated, the place where,
regardless of the words you tell yourself,
you make decisions of your heart and movement
(What you believe, you see,
cannot be seen by what you say —
what you believe is shown
by what you do)
Down here, you’ll see
the bargains that you made
along the way,
the things against yourself
that you agreed to
because you thought
you had no other choice
I’m telling you now:
you can let these go
when you see they haven’t served you
and have never even
given you anything
You can let them go
when you see yourself
standing in your native stature,
undiminished and unbowed.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 2, 2017
I got caught like a moth
between the folds of illusion
and the real light, and I thought
I was working the solution
but it was just a dream
running parallel to the truth
but without its power
Let me take the time to wake up.
It won’t seem like the story I’m imagining
but I will be lifted and straightened
from within, I will be infused
with new understanding.
I will not roll down the great conveyor belt
towards death. I will be translated,
I will walk free.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 17, 2017
Thoughts play in mind
like small flames
traveling along the kindling
leaving crumbling sticks behind,
licking onward to the next log
I am struck
with the abundance of fuel
and the warmth that comes
in the consideration
of the vastness of the truth
that contains our being,
the infinity of Life
in which we play.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 11, 2017
More than anything —
more than acceptance,
more than approval,
more than a celebrated place
among the ones who set the scenes,
more than owning all my space and time,
I want to hear the voice of truth within
Because even though at first
it seems a tiny hairline crack,
barely enough
to be seen in darkness,
it quickly opens
and proves to be everything —
turning the whole scene inside out,
filling my world with light.
©Wendy Mulhern
October 9, 2017