Home Within The Earth

Home Within the Earth

The place that I call home

Is within the Earth I roam

Where I have freedom to choose

All of my own earthly views

The place that I feel free

Is where there is sky, forest, and sea

And freedom glistens around

From earthly bliss that I have found

From the moment I was born,

I felt this deep within me

That the Earth is soulfully my home

And non can halt me on this journey

As my home is within the earth,

And the earth a part of myself

I am therefore at home within me

No space for unnecessary doubt

I feel freedom to be who I am

Within this Earth that I stay

It may not be fully understood

But it’s not for your display

It’s for my own soul to feel and nourish

That in which it soars

To feel out waves of emotion,

of that in which its stored

To love, to cry, to joyfully laugh

To learn how to be soulfully free

To explore the depths of who I am

Within the Earth that I can see

For home is where your heart is,

And my heart lays with the Earth

I have felt home and a sense of purpose here

Until death and from moment of birth

I thank you Earth for experiencing me

As I experience you,

I thank you for this earthly venture

In which the idea of home feels true

I thank you for holding space for me

And knowing I always have a home

Amongst the flowers, forest and seas

Where other species do roam

You are a part of me

And I am a part of you

To feel home within the Earth

Feels like a literal dream come true

- Lauren Wood