Connecting with you is like fire
Generative
Powerful and moving
Pulsating with platonic attraction
Remembering what it feels like for a boy
We live as men
Disconnected from our feelings
Disembodied
Enslaved by subterranean emotions
We cover our fear with anger
We ignore deeply rooted shame
Hiding our insecurities behind performative facades
Repressing our desire for transcendent love
Repressing our need for sacred intimacy
Locked in rage and possession
Controlled by the primacy of domination
Together we remember shared aspirations
Envisioning reinvented masculinity
Embodying radical honesty and consideration
Rooted in transcendent love
Rooted in vulnerable emotional honesty
We share this pain
We see the emotional carnage
The deep social wound
This curse of toxic masculinity
I write by this fire
Feeling the heat of hope
Wanting to co-create
Transcribing this truth
Yearning for transformation
Imagining liberation
Envisioning collective salvation
I feel this bond
Fused to blood magic
Crafting brotherhood
I praise the profound
Feeling the depth of our collective pain
Creating scar tissue
Healing this chasm in our humanity
Amplifying vulnerability
Accessing creativity
Reconstructing sacred archetypes
A pantheon of loving masculinity
Becoming lover, brother, father, and prophet
Conjuring both yin and yang
Conjuring the essence of awareness
Fusing a tantric dialectic
Transcending binary dualities of gender
We embody emotional honesty
We become guardians of the collective
Nurturing the earth
Learning to name our feelings
Pausing before we create stories to explain emotions
Embodying shared trust and elemental solidarity
We embody transformational masculinity
Conjuring connection and interdependence
Reclaiming our humanity
Our sacred destiny
Awakening liberation
Nurturing the emergence of vulnerable masculinity
Visual inspiration by @sateando on IG or twitter
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2023
