Here on earth
Is where things are real
Where the touch of your hand
Awoke the pain I felt
When you told me of the cancer
Here on earth
A body that feels
Perhaps longed to take flight
But the sky is not really my home
Just a place I ran to
Hoping to ease the pain
Here on earth is where the true healing happens
Where in opening our hearts to what is real
Resistance ends
Pain waits patiently
Perhaps for many years
Needing to find a home in us
A place to be felt, surrendered to, transformed
Tears you release the pain
You are not the thing to be scorned
Though others so often do
You help the healing happen
And the descent to take place
As defences are surrendered
We touch true ground
Only the defended criticise
Or tell us to rise above it all
And their criticism shows
The difficulty they have
With accepting what is most real in us
By those who find it hard to understand
What it truly means to live on earth
But you know
That here on earth is where you must live
In a body that suffers
Which has the capacity to bear
That agony which through suffering
Is finally laid to rest
Here deep on earth
