Please Come Home

I know, I’ve been a bad blogger... Sometimes just real life takes over – in this case I’m spending every free waking moment with Chu and nothing else really seems worthwhile. I’ll share a moment with you, though. It was previous weekend at the con, and me and Chu were back at the mall in an organic coffee shop to buy some food. I was exhausted so sat down in a corner drinking water while Chu was making the purchases, and my gaze wandered over to a poem that someone had taped on the wall.

No other poem has ever touched me like this did. The poem is called Please Come Home and it’s written by Jane Hooper who wrote it while sick with brain cancer which eventually killed her in 2001. For copyright reasons I won’t quote the whole poem here – it was originally published in Branches of Light Fall 2001 Issue from Banyen Books (which is a Vancouver-based New Age bookshop). When Chu came back I was crying, and we sat down and cried together for a while. Sometimes life is very sad and beautiful at the same time, and this poem brought out lot of feelings I have kept inside. And the most beautiful thing is to be able to share it with someone who completely understands.

Please come home. Please come home.
Find the place where your feet know where to walk.
And follow your own trail home.

Please come home. Please come home into your own body,
Your own vessel, your own earth.
Please come home into each and every cell,
And fully into the space that surrounds you.

Please come home. Please come home to trusting yourself,
And your instincts and your ways and your knowings,
And even the particular quirks of your personality.

Please come home. Please come home and once you are firmly there,
Please stay awhile and come to a deep rest within.
Please treasure your home. Please love and embrace your home.
Please get a deep, deep sense of what it’s like to be truly home.

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