Reprising Curious Gifts
To my StraightWhiteMale
right-wing
left-brain
monoculturally dominating brothers,
and your antifeminist glamorous
amorous womanly allies,
You have not yet heard me,
if you only hear my resistance,
sharing my non-culpable experience
with non-choice of gender attraction
and gender identity.
It's not only that my ***** gender attractions
are not my fault,
because not my choice;
but also my gender identity
and sensory-neural attachments, as also true of yours,
are my most sacredly intimate gift.
CoArising identity/individuation
and CoGravitating attraction,
like awareness and contrast
and ego/eco-consciousness,
are not just heavy social responsibilities,
but also enlightened
and empowering opportunities.
We're not legitimately known by who
or what
we hate and hurt;
But we can be felt
and known
and even divinely redeemed by who
and what
we love and heal.
We may have no more choice
about who
and what
and when
and where
and why
and how we love,
than choice to respond with awe and wonder,
or boredom and disdain,
to Earth's natural enspiriting Beauty
Of dawn
and dusk,
spring
and autumn,
ocean
and mountain,
before
and after,
inside felt
and outside recognized,
spiritual
and natural
restorative reconnections
Which feel both Healthy
and True,
of the deepest
and highest
and yet safest resilient
and resonantly robust multicolored wealth
of curiously unchosen
unfaulted gifting grace,
healthy healing pace
absence of monotheistic
overpowering disgrace.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2021
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