When you know what’s true,
the cabinet of stresses
opens its doors
and lets everything fall out –
all the pressures, all the worries,
chagrin, regret, despair  –

They dissipate, and the place they were
begins to fill in
with the obvious order
of things that are living  –
branches reaching up,
roots extending down,
everything expressly purposed  –
nothing random, nothing useless

The clatter of clutter
gives way to the hum of living,
and its clear alignment
shows itself to be
all that was ever here.
When you know what’s true,
you see and feel it.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 13, 2022