The truths you know

Someone deep within you

Knows you intimately

Is with you

And guides you

Along every step of the way

And holds your hand

Even when you stray

Into darkness

Something deep within you

Belongs to life

No matter what kind of dramas

Trouble or strife

Befall you

And how often the spectre of death

Lays its claim upon your soul

So often it seems we forget

To listen for the inward voice

So often only heard

In silence

That signals the best way to go

That gets a sense

And somehow knows

When something is right for you

And when you look deep into your eyes

Do you just see the externals

Or the heart and soul of the one

Who lives inside

Sometimes laughs

So often cries

But is never truly beholden

To anyone else

This deeper part of you

Was never created

And can never be destroyed

Even amidst all of the changes

The breakings

And reawakenings

And the leave takings

Of your life

Or would you rather believe

Those other lies

The ones they told you

When they tried to convince you

To forget all about the truths you know

And all of the lost secrets

You therefore had

To bury the way to

Deep inside you