The small plot of ground <br />on which you were born <br />cannot be expected <br />to stay forever <br />the same. <br /> <br />Earth changes, <br />and home <br />becomes different <br />places. <br /> <br />You took flesh <br />from clay <br />but the clay <br />did not come <br />from just one <br />place. <br /> <br />To feel alive, <br />important, and safe, <br />know your own waters <br />and hills, but know <br />more. <br /> <br />You have stars <br />in your bones <br />and oceans <br />in blood. <br /> <br />You have opposing <br />terrain in each eye. <br /> <br />You belong to the land <br />and sky of your first cry, <br />you belong to infinity. <br /> <br />This poem is in the books Lifelines: Threads of Grace through Seasons of <br />Change by Alla Renee Bozarth, Sheed and Ward imprint of Rowman and <br />Littlefield Publishing Company copyright 1995; Stars in Your Bones by Alla <br />Bozarth, Julia Barkley and Terri Hawthorne, North Star Press of St. Cloud <br />1990, distributed by the poet; This Mortal Marriage: Poems of Love, <br />Lament and Praise by Alla Renee, iUniverse 2003; audio cassettes Dance <br />for Me When I Die and Reading Out Loud to God by Alla Renée Bozarth <br /> Wisdom House 1985 and 1990. All rights reserved.<br /><br />Alla Renee Bozarth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/belonging-15/
