Where is the calm in my stomach?
I listened and felt a deep calm
Stretching back for 10,000 years.
Since the beginning of civilization
A mother holding and comforting
Her girl child, whispering
“You’re safe, here in my arms.”
A history back to our first ancestors
Keeping us safe, we little girls.
Teaching us gathering herbs and cooking
Ways to raise our families.
Protecting us with their hunting skills
Men who knew to care and nurture
Their families and to live as a tribe
To create a rich community,
Valuing those who provide for them
Courting and gifting and holding high
Their most precious of all relationships
The ones who give, supported by love.
Without the skills to create desire
A man lives lonely and weak.
Forcing what would have been his
Through love, he is lowly and despicable.
Learn to value what you most desire
Cultivate your skills and make yourself
One whom everyone admires.
Draw to you your heart’s love.
Teach your sons, your men friends, all
How to acquire the skills of nurturing.
Valuing that which you most desire
Will bring her, willing and generous.
Forcing what would have been yours through love
Breaks what could have been enduring.
Value her gender, make her pathway safe.
Let her give you her gifts when you have earned her trust.
© 2013 Kathryn Hardage
www.InspiredPractices.com
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