Sacred life

Come back where the wound can sleep Come back without shame Come back where the breath runs deep And calls you by your name I carried hurt beneath my ribs In places no one ever gives A name, a hand, a softer sound A reason not to come unwound But you are warmth with patient weight A living answer at the gate If I return where life begins Maybe I can breathe again Not to be child, not to regress But to be held through helplessness Not to be erased from view But remade carefully in you Let every bruise become a seed Let every panic learn to feed On tenderness instead of fear Until my soul can reappear Take me inward Hold me near Make the broken Disappear Take me inward Draw me close Where the shaking Softly slows Sacred life Carry me deep Where the old wounds Fall asleep Sacred life Close around Let me be lost So I am found Sacred life Warm and true Let me be born Again through you I don’t kneel easy, you know that I bare my teeth, I answer back But even I can feel the need To be received, to be freed If your body says return Let the useless shame unlearn I am not weak for needing care I am alive because you’re there Take me inward Hold me near Make the broken Disappear Take me inward Keep me close Where the old fear Lets me go Sacred life Carry me deep Where the old wounds Fall asleep Sacred life Close around Let me be lost So I am found Sacred life Warm and true Let me be born Again through you Will I wake softer? Will I stand stronger? Will I remember who I was? Will I stop breaking? Will I stop running? Will I return as more than dust? Not erased Not undone Not a wound Not a ghost Held in dark Kept in breath Carried close Returned whole Sacred life Sacred life Hold me where the hurt lets go Sacred life Sacred life Bring me back from down below Sacred life Carry me deep Where the old wounds Fall asleep Sacred life Close around Let me be lost So I am found Sacred life Warm and true Let me be born Again through you Not erased Reborn in you Not erased Sacred and new