08/03/2022
Since It's International Women's Day
Ladies Listen Up Please....
I owe my life to you.
Not merely for my own existence,
but for the unspoken need for approval at the heart of all men.
The need to held be held, reassured, noticed and supported as only you are able to do.
A Kings throne is a cold lonely place without the warmth of his queen.
Yet so often her contributions, though felt by all, are rarely seen.
Your willingness to sacrifice
Your inherent duty of care.
The ability to put service before self,
The incessant capacity to share.
Though I stand in acknowledgement now,
There are blank spots I invite you to see.
Softness does not mean weakness,
There are no floors in vulnerability.
Give to self that which you so freely give to others,
Hold yourself the way Life holds us all.
When heartbreak arrives, greet it as you do a small child.
Do not adorn the armour that becomes the very obstacle to the intimacy that we all seek.
Heartbreak has been revealed to me many a time
and no doubt I have revealed it to others.
Yet the gift that it is, has also revealed you again to me, and once again I lay bare, exposed to a fire that leaves little of what was and pulls forth new possibilities.
In your gentlest touch you calm a storm.
In your soft whispers you can create new worlds.
If you would just recognise your power.
