What does it take
for me to fathom
that freedom is mine,
is ours, for the taking?

That no condition can hold us hostage,
that no concerted cavalcade of lies
can mask the present sovereignty of truth?

What does it take to notice
how, in transformation, nothing changes?
how, rather, it’s a shift in focus that reveals
what always has been real
and always here.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 12, 2020