Soft like a blanket
Insider knowing
You rain realisation down
You, the body/soul that long ago
Became too painful for me to enter
You, body/soul are calling me home
Showing me where sadness is created
Birthed from emptiness of the disconnected kind
When we are not truly touched and embraced
And of how wholeness is felt
When my awareness is returned to you
Feeling I had no place to rest before
Left me with no true home in you body
Endless distancing
A painful repeat of all the times I was sent so far away
I lost contact with you body due to grief and loss
Buried so deep inside
But now I know
Pain asks of me this softening
Soul you demand
That I become pliable as a reed
Capable of moving with the wind
That wants bend me
To a new purpose
Wants to form me
Into a body of substance
Body you are the home I always longed for
You give me the answer to secrets
I could not know in any other way
And when I embrace you
There is love I find beating here
Deep inside my chest
Soft body
No longer brittle, angry, defensive
Imprisoning me within hardness and misunderstanding
Hurting defended against with armour
Soft body you show me there can be a end
To running
To restlessness
To go, go, go
A homecoming found
In mindfulness, attention and soothing
Shining its light
On fearful, tense, contracted, suspicious places
Body how you long
To be covered by a soft blanket
Given shelter from tormenting thoughts
Of not good enough
Done wrong
Illusions all
Body teach me
I am open
You are my temple
Show me how to come home to a space
That in containing it
Has the capacity to transform suffering
And bring me peace
Emerging From The Dark Night 