returning home

Each of us possesses an inner light
in bodies that have carried us
and cared for us
from the beginning
but rather than letting the soft glow
of that beacon guide us
we live from places 
far outside of ourselves
     from ideas and doctrines
     from impressions and judgments
made by those far removed from our our hearts
and it has made us less human, less whole. 
Let us return home 
to the kindness and wisdom of ourselves.