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welcome home. I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologist, and sacred artists, and this is Homecoming,

a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself.

While I will provide weekly inspiration and mental health tips, this

podcast is not a substitute for therapy. I'm so excited you're on the journey. If you

want to request specific topics or share your progress,

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Welcome home, co-journers. I'm so glad that you're here, and we have a poetry submission this week. If you've written a poem

about your homecoming journey that you would like me to share with the audience, please send it to me at

homecoming podcast at gmail.com and today's poem is from

Dominique Asaya to Foye and the poem is entitled There and Now.

Will you ever claim the parade of pain marching in my body?

Will you ever hush the constant crowds of chaos in my mind?

Will you ever break the wounding chains of sorrow in my soul?

You owe me the words, I'm sorry,

but I won't hear them until I'm gone.

Will you ever praise the path I carved to truth and blissful peace?

Will you ever respect the tools I forge to alkymise reality?

Will you ever know the life I've lived and what I've had to do?

I owe myself a liberation and this I know I forgive you.

Yes, Dominique. Thank you. Thank you so much for that, that liberation for us, that release, that breaking free, that forgiveness, and the breath, the return of the breath.

So thank you so much for that poem.

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