There’s what you intuit
and how you pursue it,
the stuff that would block you
and how you move through it

The choice day by day
to be free from enslavement,
the  vigilant struggle,
once free, to remain so

You can’t have an enemy
without being one.
You can’t be a light
without sharing it.

You can’t understand
the goodness of creation
without knowing
how good you are yourself.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 10, 2022