Touch

Touch, touched, being touched, smile touch, sound touch,

Many ways of being

Touched

Research show there's a chemical reaction

In the body that happens through

Touch

It releases endorphins helping body, mind and emotions relax, re-align

Mexico has the lowest level of crib death

Because the babies are always being

Touched

I am touched when the child next door follows me around wanting to Touch me

I had a young boy visit me regularly when I lived in Tokyo

He always came wounded in some way

Scratched his knee, cut his finger, hurt his head

I made a point of touching him, lots

One visit he came to see me on crutches

Now that's an extreme need to be touched, I thought

How long has it been since your parents touched you, I asked

He said he remembered clearly… when he was 5

His heart was so needing to be touched, he told me

He felt locked up inside where the sun couldn't touch him

I decided while in Japan I was going to touch children with a smile

Beautiful smiles I received in response kept

My heart open in a busy crowded city

Sound touch, that's a touch

My beautiful meditation music touches me

Bringing me onto a higher plain of thinking, of seeing  the world,

Of being in my life for myself

And still, in the process of growing,

I am aware of the sounds I don't want to be touched by

Giving myself the right to say no

To receiving negative, toxic sounds

Being talked at

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