Earth

Earth,
I crawled to your surface again.
I had been tangled up in
passageways carved through
the soil of my mind.

I grew new roots
to find nutrient matter
buried deeply below
shallow hearts and shallow minds,
buried deeply within
distorted fragments of broken selfs.

Earth,
I feel your support again.
You gave me back solid ground
below my searching, stumbling feet.

Embracing me with your weathered hands,
you give me what I lost and found:
A place, a whole planet, a home for my soul.