| Love Beyond | by María Ortega García.

Love myself from within.
Beyond acceptance.
Making love to myself
in this sacred ritual that creates life.

My life.

A life birthed
every time that I love
a numbed and neglected part of my figure,
every time that I love
a shamed trait that makes me who I am,
every time that I voice a truth silenced before.

Beyond acceptance.

Beyond accepting my curves
as something I have to live with,
but fiercely loving them as a those voluptuous attempts of my body
to express my flaming womanhood.

Beyond accepting my darkness
as something I need to transform into light,
but proudly shedding light there
to express the full extent of my life.

Loving the fact there is nothing in myself I have to live with
but rather that all of me is there to be lived.

Music: Winter Smoke by The Owl

Love Beyond

Not my most loving self today.

Compassion huddled up in a corner
not saying a comforting word
for fear of being considered overindulgent.

When a caress is needed 
you only receive cold silence
and without a reprimand nor a word of love
you go on punishing yourself
for what you deem amiss.

When love is all you need 
to leave the spiral of punishment,
you only receive a deprivation
that pushes you deeper 
into a pathway of pain and disconnection.

When the learner and the mentor
share the same story.
Both, the child and the model
fall and lead into despair.

And you render the potential of the remaining hours of the day
to the forlorn old ways
looking forward, hopeful, to a new dawn.

- María Ortega García

Old ways

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