To feel the heartbeat of the world

I want to feel the heartbeat of the world

The collective pulse that keeps us

Loving

Connecting

Finding the strength

To reach out through our own pain for life

The courage that will not close the door on suffering

And will say this hurts

Is not right

But was all part of the journey that brought us to here

Fire and ash

Flood and storm

You rain down on the world

With a restless fury

That can terrify

But if we look deeper

If we have the courage to stand firm and true and open

In the eye of the storm

At its very heart

While wild tempests rage

Will we hear with open ears and hearts

Awakened to truth through suffering

The roaring cry for love

That can answer

And race forward from the heart

That in being isolated, exiled or rejected

So longs to be reconnected

To the healing heartbeat

Of love