{"id":1763,"date":"2014-08-11T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxmarmer.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2016-01-05T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:09:34","slug":"if-you-want-to-change-the-world-love-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxmarmer.com\/blog\/if-you-want-to-change-the-world-love-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want to Change the World&#8230;Love a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(reposted from Facebook)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Profound &amp; Beautiful piece (via <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/miacaraperachiotti\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=699603488\">Mia Cara<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>If You Want to Change the World&#8230;Love a Man<\/p>\n<p>If you want to change the world love a man; really love him<br \/>\nChoose the one whose soul calls to yours clearly who sees you; who is brave enough to be afraid<br \/>\nAccept his hand and guide him gently to your hearts blood<br \/>\nWhere he can feel your warmth upon him and rest there<br \/>\nAnd burn his heavy load in your fires<br \/>\nLook into his eyes look deep within and see what lies dormant or awake or shy or expectant there<br \/>\nLook into his eyes and see there his fathers and grandfathers and all the wars and madness their spirits fought in some distant land, some distant time<br \/>\nLook upon their pains and struggles and torments and guilt; without judgment<br \/>\nAnd let it all go<br \/>\nFeel into his ancestral burden<br \/>\nAnd know that what he seeks is safe refuge in you<br \/>\nLet him melt in your steady gaze<br \/>\nAnd know that you need not mirror that rage<br \/>\nBecause you have a womb, a sweet, deep gateway to wash and renew old wounds<\/p>\n<p>If you want to change the world love a man, really love him<br \/>\nSit before him, in the full majesty of your woman in the breath of your vulnerability<br \/>\nIn the play of your child innocence in the depths of your death<br \/>\nFlowering invitation, softly yielding, allowing his power as a man<br \/>\nTo step forward towards you\u2026and swim in the Earth\u2019s womb, in silent knowing, together<br \/>\nAnd when he retreats\u2026because he will\u2026flees in fear to his cave\u2026<br \/>\nGather your grandmothers around you\u2026envelope in their wisdoms<br \/>\nHear their gentle shusshhhed whispers, calm your frightened girls\u2019 heart<br \/>\nUrging you to be still\u2026and wait patiently for his return<br \/>\nSit and sing by his door, a song of remembrance, that he may be soothed, once more<\/p>\n<p>If you want to change the world, love a man, really love him<br \/>\nDo not coax out his little boy<br \/>\nWith guiles and wiles and seduction and trickery<br \/>\nOnly to lure him\u2026to a web of destruction<br \/>\nTo a place of chaos and hatred<br \/>\nMore terrible than any war fought by his brothers<br \/>\nThis is not feminine this is revenge<br \/>\nThis is the poison of the twisted lines<br \/>\nOf the abuse of the ages, the rape of our world<br \/>\nAnd this gives no power to woman it reduces her as she cuts off his balls<br \/>\nAnd it kills us all<br \/>\nAnd whether his mother held him or could not<br \/>\nShow him the true mother now<br \/>\nHold him and guide him in your grace and your depth<br \/>\nSmoldering in the center of the Earth\u2019s core<br \/>\nDo not punish him for his wounds that you think don\u2019t meet your needs or criteria<br \/>\nCry for him sweet rivers<br \/>\nBleed it all back home<\/p>\n<p>If you want to change the world love a man, really love him<br \/>\nLove him enough to be naked and free<br \/>\nLove him enough to open your body and soul to the cycle of birth and of death<br \/>\nAnd thank him for the opportunity<br \/>\nAs you dance together through the raging winds and silent woods<br \/>\nBe brave enough to be fragile and let him drink in the soft, heady petals of your being<br \/>\nLet him know he can hold you stand up and protect you<br \/>\nFall back into his arms and trust him to catch you<br \/>\nEven if you\u2019ve been dropped a thousand times before<br \/>\nTeach him how to surrender by surrendering yourself<br \/>\nAnd merge into the sweet nothing, of this worlds\u2019 heart<\/p>\n<p>If you want to change the world, love a man, really love him<br \/>\nEncourage him, feed him, allow him, hear him, hold him, heal him<br \/>\nAnd you, in turn, will be nourished and supported and protected<br \/>\nBy strong arms and clear thoughts and focused arrows<br \/>\nBecause he can, if you let him, be all that you dream<\/p>\n<p>If you want to love a man, love yourself, love your father<br \/>\nLove your brother, your son, your ex-partner; from the first boy you kissed,<br \/>\nTo the last one you wept over<br \/>\nGive thanks for the gifts; of your unraveling to this meeting<br \/>\nOf the one who stands before you now<br \/>\nAnd find in him the seed to all that\u2019s new and solar<br \/>\nA seed that you can feed to help direct the planting<br \/>\nTo grow a new world, together<br \/>\n~Anonymous~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(reposted from Facebook) Profound &amp; Beautiful piece (via Mia Cara) If You Want to Change the World&#8230;Love a Man If you want to change the world love a man; really love him Choose the one whose soul calls to yours clearly who sees you; who is brave enough to be afraid Accept his hand and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxmarmer.com\/blog\/if-you-want-to-change-the-world-love-a-man\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","cat-39-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If You Want to Change the World...Love a Man - Max Marmer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxmarmer.com\/blog\/if-you-want-to-change-the-world-love-a-man\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If You Want to Change the World...Love a Man - Max Marmer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(reposted from Facebook) Profound &amp; 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