A way to find safe harbor
is to be one – this I feel today,
having extended welcome,
and still basking in the comfort
of that simple act

More than words and gestures, I think,
the heart behind it –
that offering served to open the way
for me, too, to sail in
to where the breezes and ripples
are kind.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 8, 2022