Buried deep inside

They lived there deep inside of you

All the feelings you could not speak

All the imprints of the way the world

Embraced or rejected your soul

There may be a time when

What got buried in silence

Will try to find its voice

A time when the body screams out

A time for deep listening

Be the one who will be there

Do not shut the feelings down again

Let the soft waves of your attention

Wash over the hurting places deep inside

Hold yourself as gently as you can

Give soothing to the pain

Our bodies are living beings

That respond to energies

We resonate with what happens

And some of us had no barrier

Against pain

We became the shock absorbers

Resonating with the fire and fury of trauma

And so now our bodies ask

Please hold this space

While charges make themselves known

Be the open field

Within which

What got buried

Can rise and yield to attention

Be surrendered

In the allowing

Of the knowing

In the embracing of the present moment

Be a witness

Allow the flow

Let yourself pause

Breathe and gently let go

All that is seeking to emerge

From deep inside