"Taking Within"

2/9/2009



Man can never know the kind
of loneliness a woman knows.
Man lies in a woman's womb
only to gather strength,

he nourishes himself from this
fusion, and then he rises and
goes into the world, into his
work, into battle, into art.

He is not lonely. He is busy.
The memory of the swim in
amniotic fluid gives him energy,
completion.

The woman may be busy too,
but she feels empty.

Sensuality for her is not
only a wave of pleasure in
which he has bathed, and a
charge of electric joy at
contact with another.

When man lies in her womb,
she is fulfilled, each act of love
is a taking of man within her,
an act of birth and rebirth,
of child bearing and man bearing.

Man lies in her womb and
is reborn each time anew
with a desire to act, to BE.

But for a woman, the climax
is not in the birth, but in
the moment when man rests
inside of her. - Anais Nin

from The Diary of Anais Nin:
Vol. 1 (1931-1934)


Posted in The-Sexes

Comments

Interesting perspective, one I never thought of!
Posted by BillyBobThornton on 2/9/2009 4:51:50 PM

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