well let me first say that everyone needs to be careful what they say around April. You never know what she's gonna do.

second....WOW. Seriously....WOW. How can I possibly express my flattery? How can I possibly express my love? How can I be so fortunate? It seems like not very long ago (and it wasn't) that I didn't really know anyone here on tribe. It wasn't so long ago that I was so depressed I barely was able to get out of bed.

Anybody that wants to criticize 'the secret' really has no clue how much love can be received if they are willing to open themselves up to it. Anybody that wants to try to tell me I'm crazy for thinking that the Law of Attraction, positive thinking, cognitive therapy doesn't work...well shit...go ahead and call me crazy. I don't care anymore because look at all the love I get to wake to in the morning and sends me off to the sweetest dreams of my life at the end of a long day.

I love you ladies, one and all. I truly do and I am very happy that there isn't any of that weirdness between any of us. That strange sexual dynamic that so often interferes in a good relationship. That weird buried lust that has so often preoccupied my intentions in the past. I love you all unconditionally. I would and will do anything within my power for each and all of you. I would go to great extremes to protect your honor, your hearts, your love.

I'd stand on the line, hand in hand with any and all of you. I'd lay down in a puddle of blood and broken glass so that you might cross without every soiling your feet. I would wash your feet of soil and toil and rub your neck until the sweetest and most sublime sleep of your life overtook your weary senses. I would take a bullet in the head, a bus to the chest or a punch to the face, gladly and without regret.

I love you April for doing this. I thought that thread just for me in Gimme some Sugar was cool but this absolutely blows me away.

Wowoowowowowowowowwow?

And so, let me sign off for now with a humble and deep bow as I whisper and slightly weep "namaste my dear goddesses of the flesh. You angels walking the earth. You creatures of universal light. Each and all.

...wounded no more...

slings and arrows
whistling with rage
slicing tender flesh
born of innocent days

cast aside once more
dismissed out of hand

peer deeply now
you fickle souls
so determined to destroy
the beauty you found

so eager to steal
my humbly jeweled crown

so eager to crush
my every grasping hand
seeking the sensation
of paper
and pen

seeking the love
so long hidden
within

I long no more
for the love has returned

I seek only now
for the never ending turn

the trials and journeys
the tortured
convoluted cries
cast out into frigid nights
lit only by
a dim hunter's moon

I have surpassed many a barrier
and I have survived
many a jagged reef

I have survived my own hatred
and I have conquered my dread

shall the earth turn
over once more in slumber
and to wake once more
to the heat of the sun?

shall the clouds pass
over head
and give me one last
glimpse of the stars?

feel my love
the light that explodes
from my chest

feel my heat
as I gently cradle your head

I will whisper the secret
and hold you still
in your fear

I will offer my sword
I will offer my shield
and I will call you each
and all
Dear

come to me in your darkness
come to me in your doubt
come to me if you falter
as I fill my lungs to shout;

"I defy you demons
and heathens of weaker souls!
I dare you to bring ill intent
to all the individual beauties
that now compromise my whole!"

"Walk with respect
and walk with humility
for when you walk near my loves
you walk
in clear view
of me."

I will manifest the means
I will summon the heat of the sun
I will not surrender
until all our battles are won



I love you all. And I humbly offer my eternal thank you...to each and every one.

The Reverend Tobey Alan Anderson