Corporate Servitude

Struggling to find you
Wanting to feel your arms around me
Knowing I’m safe
Knowing I’m loved
Knowing I’m saved

Help me to stay focused on you
Pursuing you
Asking questions
Seeking the answers
Only you can give

Voices taunt me from
All directions
Trying to keep me down
Trying to keep me scared
Trying to keep me from you

Inside, they remind me of my past
Tell me I’m worthless
That you could never love me
That I’ve tried to find you before
And failed

Outside, they say I’m foolish
Stupid for following you
This is a mindless sham
Coercive, discriminatory, hypocritical
Why don’t you rely on yourself?

But only you can
Make me whole
Take away my pain
Heal my heart and
Fill it with love

Only in you can I find rest
My soul is leading me towards you
Knowing I will be complete then
Only in you can I
Truly be home.

©Richelle Maciej, 2008