Every young part of my heart
ached for the love of a man like you.
A man in quasi-father-figure-ness
also unafraid of his sexuality
and his shadow
who could “see” me/us
with no lecherous intent
however buried.
Your love
is like water…
for my rose garden
of young femininity
that is somehow
ancient too.
Your capacity
to hold and BE so much
PURE love
comes from so much
work
inner healing
courageous choices
and the deepest feeling spaces
that only a true King
can feel and inhabit
and live in…
You pick up where fathers
and mates
have left off
and help me
pick up the pieces
and parts
that have needed love like yours.
When my heart says ‘thank you’
to you today,
it knows
I couldn’t be healing all of this
without YOU,
with the YOU that you have cultivated
the YOU that loves so deep
and cares so much.
Thank you for being
the jarring voice
of deep masculine love.
Thank you for being
the father-surrogate
my youth has needed
in all loves frequencies you carry.
Thank you for showing
and demonstrating
how a healing
loving woman
should ask
and wait
and hold out for
the most exquisite overflow
of love
from a mate.
And thank you…
most of all…
for being unabashedly YOU,
whatever that means in moments
and however that changes with process
and shifting desire-choices…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAPHAEL! β€
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