I will not settle
for the usual excuses,
I will not retreat
to helplessness

This is not my battle
so I don’t need to win it,
but neither will I stand by
to see it lost

The Mind we dwell in
is sovereign  –
it owns our being, it owns our thought,
and it will bear us
on comprehensive currents
so we let go our obtuseness
and are taught.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 26, 2022