Because We Love You
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BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU, YOU ARE THE ONE WE LOVE At Level 3 we see through the mess that you are and we have chosen you for your nobility, your quick intelligence, your pain, your laughter, and the glint of true gold shining in your heart. We are Kingmakers. ou are beautiful to us, lit pink through the shining spectacles of love. Who would not want to be you! And maybe for a while you will be, sustained by the transforming power of our great hearts. We are so emotionally str ong that "od has unh esitatingly confi ded to us the remaking of you, #noble, intelligent, suffering, humorous, golden etc.$ and by "olly we do it% &aving made you King, we honour you as your devoted sub'e cts and slaves. Who you really are is not the poin t, because if you don(t want to be noble, intelli gent, laugh ing through tears etc. you 'olly well should% )his persuasive scenario is more flattering than roses or champagne and it ma y even work, because we(re stronger and more stubborn than you are. *ut if you have the force to resist this pro'ection and remain yourself, several things may happen+ a. We will not believe it and turn a blind eye. b. We will take you to a psychiatrist. r c. We may disc over we have a real perso n opposit e us and be so turned on by this surpr ise that we fall in love all over again. )his time you will be complicated, perverse, pig-headed, quiotic, and even more interesting than you were before. /o you can(t win0 you remain our King, enthroned in our hearts, and we will honour you, plodding faithfully after you into the distance to love you even beyond death. /o there% SUFFERING AND ART 1f you hurt me 1 will cry, but 1 will paint a better picture. At Level 3 we know about pain and do not avoid it, becau se it tells us who we are. We will take this infla med and softly pulsin g wound to tenderly eamine what it says. *ut we are gentle with it0 it might die on us and leave us empty handed. )his swee t and moaning hurt of ours is in its infancy 0 if we can let it tell us what it knows, if we can listen, let it babble, weep and sing, we may have the beginning of something+ 2*ut you went away. 2*ut 1 came back. 2*ut you told me you loved me. 2/o 1 did. 2Love me! 2)ell you. 4ing-pong. 4ing-pong. ur heads swing back and forth. 1t was said last night and will be said again tonight. *ecause somewhere it is true, always and inevitably true. 5eanwhile our heart breaks and we paint with the spilt blood. And nothing can stop it because feelings change, and babies are made from feelings and we are all babies. )his is the pain that feeds us. (from THE TREE OF AROUSAL by E. J. Ward 2011)
Transcript of Because We Love You
BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU, YOU ARE THE ONE WE LOVE
At Level 3 we see through the mess that you are and we have chosen you for your nobility, your
quick intelligence, your pain, your laughter, and the glint of true gold shining in your heart. We are
Kingmakers. ou are beautiful to us, lit pink through the shining spectacles of love. Who would not
want to be you! And maybe for a while you will be, sustained by the transforming power of our
great hearts. We are so emotionally strong that "od has unhesitatingly confided to us the
remaking of you, #noble, intelligent, suffering, humorous, golden etc.$ and by "olly we do it%
&aving made you King, we honour you as your devoted sub'ects and slaves. Who you really are is
not the point, because if you don(t want to be noble, intelligent, laughing through tears etc. you
'olly well should% )his persuasive scenario is more flattering than roses or champagne and it may
even work, because we(re stronger and more stubborn than you are. *ut if you have the force to
resist this pro'ection and remain yourself, several things may happen+
a. We will not believe it and turn a blind eye. b. We will take you to a psychiatrist. r c. We may
discover we have a real person opposite us and be so turned on by this surprise that we fall in
love all over again. )his time you will be complicated, perverse, pig-headed, quiotic, and even
more interesting than you were before. /o you can(t win0 you remain our King, enthroned in our
hearts, and we will honour you, plodding faithfully after you into the distance to love you even
beyond death. /o there%
SUFFERING AND ART
1f you hurt me 1 will cry, but 1 will paint a better picture. At Level 3 we know about pain and do not
avoid it, because it tells us who we are. We will take this inflamed and softly pulsing wound to
tenderly eamine what it says. *ut we are gentle with it0 it might die on us and leave us empty
handed. )his sweet and moaning hurt of ours is in its infancy0 if we can let it tell us what it knows,
if we can listen, let it babble, weep and sing, we may have the beginning of something+
2*ut you went away.
2*ut 1 came back.
2*ut you told me you loved me.
2/o 1 did.
2Love me!
2)ell you.
4ing-pong. 4ing-pong. ur heads swing back and forth. 1t was said last night and will be said
again tonight. *ecause somewhere it is true, always and inevitably true. 5eanwhile our heart
breaks and we paint with the spilt blood. And nothing can stop it because feelings change, and
babies are made from feelings and we are all babies. )his is the pain that feeds us.
(from THE TREE OF AROUSAL by E. J. Ward 2011)
