© 2010 Howard McQueen
Don’t presume you can gently explore intimacy.
Intimacy will flat out overwhelm you,
exposing your hidden,
long incubated
fears.
A single word spoken
can draws open the flood gates,
drowning ourselves and those we love
intimately,
in our hidden reservoir
of waiting to be reconciled,
yet to be named
invited to be felt and received
human emotions.
Such are these avoided emotions we label "wounds",
stored in resistance to the unrestrained, unconditional heart.
Clenched closure, shutting down our aperture
for receiving all the gifts life brings to our threshold.
Intimacy transforms the hardened walls of defense
holding at bay the fear held in the human heart.
Walls become again
malleable,
translucent,
permeable
membranes
for the youthful vim and vigor of life to re-enter.
The heart opens, disgorging that which hurt and was hidden
in the hijacked intimacy of childhood.
In awakening,
we are invited to truly feel these hidden emotions,
to navigate and dance with these seemingly blocked demons living within.
As this intimate inward dance progresses,
we are gifted with the name
of these “I can’t handle it” emotional energies
and their energy, with a fullness of capabilities and capacities
are gifted back, returning to us.
Our personal stories,
seemingly etched deep in store grooves,
are seen merely as charged preferences
now rapidly dissolving into the freedom’s clarity.
Thus we come full circle,
face to face
with our authentic nature,
once crimped musical instruments,
now nimble dancers
Our judging and sentencing life dramatically lessens
Our manufacturing resistance to life shifts into decline
and more light enters this world,
as Love.
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