Men

 

Men who believe women.

Men who care for women in pain.

Men who praise women when

their bodies grow old.

Men who listen to women even when

they repeat themselves.

Men who hear women even when

they do not speak.

Men who grasp the whole

radiance of a woman's body,

not just the part,

who hug with their own radiance, 

Rahman i'Raheem. 

Men who father daughters and sons.

Men who father mothers.

Men who linger by forest ponds

and gaze into green stillness,

speaking to the great mother.

Men who travel deep into the wilderness

not to hunt or kill,

not to climb the highest peak,

but to Be there.

Men who know valleys,

observing the etiquette of mist,

the customs of cedar and willow.

Men who understand

that the fire in their belly

is the Goddess.