This text introduces us to a beautiful understanding of the couple's relationship, and although it is written for heterosexual couples, I believe it applies to any type of relationship, in which both members are willing to grow.
IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD... LOVE A MAN...
If you want to change the world...Love a man...really love him. Love the man whose soul calls to yours with clarity.... the man who sees you...the man who has enough courage to be afraid. Accept his hand and guide it gently into the depths of your heart where he can feel your warmth and rest...and burn his heavy burden in your fire...look into his eyes...find his parents and grandparents and those wars where their spirits fought...in lands far away in times long ago...find his pains and fights and torments and guilt without judgment..and let it all go...let it go...feel its ancestral burden...what it seeks is a safe haven in you...let it melt in its steady gaze knowing that you need not mirror that fury...for you have a womb...a deep and sweet door...to wash and renew old wounds....
If you want to change the world...Love a Man...really love him. Sit before him...in the full majesty of your womanhood...in the breath of your vulnerability...in the play of your childlike innocence...in the depths of your death...invite him to blossom...gently surrendered...and allow his masculine power to step into you...and swim together in the womb of the earth in silent knowing...and when he withdraws...for he will...running scared away to his cave....gather your grandmothers around you...wrapped in their wisdom...listen to their tender whispers...soothing your frightened childish heart...inviting you to stillness...and wait patiently for his return...sit and sing by his door...a song of remembrance...that he may calm once more....
If you want to change the world...Love a Man...really love him...Don't trick his little boy...with wiles and wiles of seduction...only to leave him trapped in a destructive web of chaos and hatred more terrible than all the wars his brothers fought...that is not feminine...that is vengeance...that is the poison of corrupt lineage...of the abuse of the ages...of the rape of our world...that does not empower the woman....but reduces her as she castrates him...and if his mother could not sustain him...show him a true woman...now sustain him and guide him with your grace and depth...burning in the very center of the Earth...do not punish him for his wounds that do not respond to your needs or your criteria...cry sweet rivers for him...carry all that blood back home....
If you want to change the world...Love a Man...really love him..... Love him until you strip naked and feel free...love him until you open your body and soul to the cycle of birth and death...And thank him for the opportunity...as you dance together through raging winds...and silent forests...be brave enough to be fragile.....and let it drink from the soft, intoxicating petals of your Being...let it know it can hold you...stand and protect you...let it fall into your arms trusting that it can take you...even if you have been dropped a thousand times before...teach it to surrender...surrendering...and join the sweet emptiness of the world's heart.....
If you want to change the world...Love a Man...really love him..... Encourage him, nurture him, allow him, shield him, sustain him, give him support, give him Healing...and you...in return will be nurtured, sustained and protected...have strong arms and clear thoughts and arrows aimed...for he can...if you let him...be everything you dream of...if you want to love a man Love yourself...Love your father...Love your brother...your son...your ex-partner.Love from the child you have kissed for the first time...to the last one you have cried for...Love the Man...be grateful for the gifts of your path...to this encounter with the one in front of you now...and find in him the seed...of all that is new and solar...a seed you can nurture to help plant and grow a new world together....
LAUREN WILC
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