We are One

I cast you out like a shadow into the world. You boomeranged back to me in the form of a man in pain, coiled up in his past, seeking the feminine in every face and gesture, haunted by the absence of the inner woman of his soul.

I was too blind to see that you were in me and that I was projecting you onto the outer world. You spoke to me in a language I could not understand and so you translated it into a loud noise in my mind, shouting through the outer man��� ���I am here���. How many times have you screamed at me and I have been deaf to your cries?

What I cannot accept within me I have lost to the world. It returns to me as a hostile entity because of my resistance. I could not bear the pain I had to feel in order for my inner man to return to my heart. ��I rejected you, my other wing and flight of my soul. I became one-sidedly woman and lost you in the world outside of me, seeking you in every face and in every dalliance doomed to failure, because you were absent from my heart. You held up a mirror of truth and I could not look, because looking in it meant that I had to feel every hurt in the canyon of pain between us.

But now the scales have fallen from my eyes, in tears that melt the roles that divide us. I have played the role of woman, you have played the role of man. We are both masculine and feminine. Together we are the truth of creation. We are one.

~ Collette OMahony

�� February 2015

image; Alla Sviridenko