A Quiet Yes

After long years of the father, 

her life evolved to a new core simplicity. 

She found herself immune to the constantly fraught scenes 

no new job could match or hatch. Everything grew easy

as she masterminded from an inner place 

almost holy in its hollowness. 

Everyone noticed her not wanting 

to be noticed only to mistake how easy 

even the most chaotic arrangements must have felt to her 

as she became invisibly in charge of the flow 

of people broken in their need to pretend 

a non-existent power. That same power that slipped into 

placing her carefully or casually in charge 

and saying or not saying a quiet yes 

in the washed Fresnel light 

displacing the spotlight from the stage. 

After her childhood worst she learned 

the gentle miracle of finding a smooth approach 

toward the unknown next. An inner logic 

came to reside within her, a stability 

previously unimagined in a younger skin 

as peace eclipsed the once contagious pseudo electricity 

her new constant center, a would-be home 

to those trusting a new balance in the softer light.