Let’s all go down to the river –
now I understand
why people travel there to pray –
there’s no stain on any of us
too set in to be washed clean

The current is strong
and the spring is so pure
that every single thing
can be absolved,
every misstep forgiven

We will look up through wet eyes
and we will see each other,
maybe for the first time,
we’ll recognize, in each other, who we are –
the ones who only ever wanted
to be love.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 13, 2020