We’re only a layer away
from the bright cause that animates us all,
only a layer, only a letting go
of what we now reflexively react to

Only the choice not to be caught up
in any of these urgent
cause and effect loops,
only the choice
to begin at the beginning,
right here, right now,
caused by nothing else
but what we are.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 9, 2018