Emily Pearce - Musician and Poet

To get to the core

Of human experience,

That’s what I want

The beating heart

Flesh, blood and bone

All the grit

And all the grace

Of what it means to be living

In one of these glorious and fragile bodies.

To live from the centre

Of this

To drink deep

Tasting all the flavours

Fearlessly opening

To my fiercest pain

My most sacred longing.

To breath in the fullest breath.

Draw the world and its sufferings into my own heart.

To breath out

And in voice, in song, in word, in poem;

Cry of agony,

Shout of victory,

Whisper of tenderness;

Let fly all that must be heard.

Without thought, without holding back.

To send these honest prayers

Like birds, up on the wind.

Where the breath of God

Will draw them in

And God will weep

And rain down tears of mercy

On the children of the earth

Who stumble

Under the weight of Love

They must carry