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The Body as Doorway · curated edition

Honoring the Sacred Sexual Force Within

A quiet reading

About 2 minutes · 8 stanzas

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There is a current within desire, a warmth rising through the body, asking to be felt without shame and without command.

Sexual energy is human. Some experience it as sacred, some as playful, some quietly, and some not at all. No single meaning owns it.

It is not wasted because it passes through pleasure. It is not purified by denying the flesh. Its worth does not depend on turning desire into doctrine.

When held with awareness, sexuality can become a meeting of body and attention, an honest language of longing, creation, or intimacy.

It does not heal every wound. It did not shape the mountains. It is not a cosmic force waiting to be mastered.

It asks for simpler reverence: consent, care, freedom, the right to change one's mind, and the humility to know another body is never a vessel for our awakening.

If you call this energy divine, let the word make you gentler, not more certain. Let it return you to the living truth of the body: desire can be powerful, and power must learn responsibility.

Honor what rises. Honor what does not. Let sacredness begin where no one is used, erased, or made less free.

Take a moment before choosing what comes next.

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“There is a current within desire,
a warmth rising through the body,
asking to be felt
without shame”
Honoring the Sacred Sexual Force WithinPoetry by Michael Yap
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This curated edition is shared as personal artistic expression, not medical, financial or relationship advice. Sacred names and traditions are approached with respectful poetic or devotional context.

Narration is off in this release.