This poem was written directly after a mystical experience. Many times after making love, meditating, praying, or being in nature, I go into a state of deep silence, where something speaks through me.
I know when I am disconnected from my body, because no poetry wants to be written. In a sense, I can only write when I am in an altered state of consciousness, or beingness, and It is also a commitment from me to you, to offer something of value. 

So often, especially in this business oriented area, it’s all about me and myself.
It’s all the ways I can subtly make you admire me, and get something from you, rather than to give and to share. 

I want my poetry to speak from a different place.

This poem, although appearing to have a sexual connotation, was in fact written in an ecstatic merging with existence itself.

It’s a tantric poem, touching upon the polarity and unity of the inner marriage.
I hope you will enjoy it!

Love, Amanda

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Lovemaking 
As a portal into presence. 
Touching the holy space of the awakened self. 

Returning to the one 
that was quietly resting at the root,
cradled by love,
called back to the life we were meant to live. 

Sacred Ground within.
listen she whispers
As deeply held tensions cease, and the space of beauty reveals itself, the mind’s grip and control soften
into the vibrant light of awareness. 
Presence, that is not yet in form. 

I am listening
Spiraling from light to dark
From dark to light.
like a cup drunk with our own medicine 
In a celebratory offering of devotion.

Birthing ourselves through, breath by breath
Meeting the other as a sacred mirror. 

listening

As we are releasing back to the primordial fires resistance after resistance,
mask after mask,
armor after armor 
against the life that has made us

Nakedly we are revealed who we truly are 
beloved I am listening

Hope and disappointment are offered, expectations and pride are offered.. and the armor around our heart. 
All exchanged for truth,
laid at the altar of our divinity and
sung through the prayers of our hearts. 

listening

As the deity reveals herself before you, 
as your innocence is burst forth.

The goddess within him reveals herself. 
The God in her. 
Breathtaking unity. 
Unspeakable beauty.
Love begins with saying yes. 

listen she whispers 
As the awakening unfolds and blooms 
the mind comes to rest.

Worlds upon worlds exist within you.
You are the creator and the creation.
Ecstatic and rhythmic breath.
The mystic path that has been named by so many. 
It all resides within you.