"The Invitation"
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for your adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless, and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it's not pretty, everyday, and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver moon, "YES!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and still do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interst me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer~
"Heal Over"
It isn't very difficult to see why
You are the way you are
Doesn't take a genius to realise
That sometimes life is hard
It's gonna take time
But you'll just have to wait
You're gonna be fine
But in the meantime
Come over here baby
Let me wipe your tears away
Come a little nearer baby
Cuz you'll heal over
Heal Over
Heal over someday
And I don't want to hear you tell yourself
That these feelings are in the past
You know it doesn't mean they are off the shelf
Because Pain is built to last
Everybody sails alone
But we can travel side by side
Even if you fail
You know no one really minds
Come over here baby
Let me wipe your tears away
Come a little nearer baby
Cuz you'll heal over
Heal Over
Heal over someday
Don't hold back but don't let go
I know it's so hard
You've got to try to trust yourself
I know it's so hard
Come over here baby
Let me wipe your tears away
Come a little nearer baby
Cuz you'll heal over
Heal Over
Heal over someday
~KT Tunstall~
