The Body Calls Us Home

Make a decision to begin loving your body,

fully, and without apology.

Make a decision to embrace

the many faces that you carry within.

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Make a decision to bring all

of the lost and forgotten parts of you,

back into the faceted glimmering,

jewel that you are.

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Begin to remember that your body is sacred.

Begin to remember that you are made

as a temple of clay from this earth,

 held together with breath, and dust

from planets and stars.

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Begin to remember

that the Earth also lives as some body,

and that as we are nourished by thee,

 this life needs to be nourished by us all.  

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Do not forget that your body

  holds a living library of story and song about you.

Read aloud and dance these histories,

so you might come to know your ancestors,

and your descendants.

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Those living, waiting, and unborn,

who learn from your body how to live.

Gathering, watching, and seeing, 

what their lives may one day become.

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Most of all never forget,

that your body has never forgotten you,

but sleeps like a lover awaiting your return.

Wake up the body gently,

call the body beloved,

just as the body calls you home.  

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Lorna Bailey