The Absence.

Prison.

BOY. Let us now consider the electrical application of this union of opposites. A positive, electrical charge is the male, whereas a negative magnetic one is the female. When the two fuse, creative action occurs. A spark is lit, and POWER is generated.

It is this male, electric, and female, magnetic, process that causes the planet to rotate, a car to move, a flower to grow, a child to be CREATED. Looking at the Sun, our Star, the male, electrical, positive, power, whose rays strike like the magnetic female moon. The combination of both rays reaches the earth, causes fertilization, MOVEMENT, and growth.

The same growth is reflected in the relationship between the sexes. When a spiritually minded man, who represents the sun, and a spiritually minded woman, who represents the moon, fall in Love with each other, their two natures merge creatively, stimulating and nourishing one another in a way that is ESSENTIAL to create inspiration.

When man and woman learn to be sensitive to this interplay of the powers between them, they will experience a contentment so absolute that it surpasses raptures, tranquility of more worth than ecstacy. Indeed their fulfillment and sense of wholeness, oneness, and completion will be Seven times greater than that of the average physical pairing.

A man has to know a woman's worth, and a woman MUST KNOW HER WORTH. A woman has to know a real man's worth. This is the truth. I am the truth. The truth is beautiful. It gives order, design, harmony, and balance to anything that partakes of it. Truth is beautiful in that it's qualities exalt the body, mind, soul, and spirit. Truth is beautiful in the sense that it is simple and uncomplicated, yet profound. It is natural, and like the rose it needs no decoration or embellishment. Like a man and a woman become One, it is complete, no more, no less.

*******This piece was written last year in a play titled, "The Absence" which was based on letters received by a friend of mine who was incarcerated at an Alabama State Prison. (C/2008)*******

It is so ironic how writing stays with you.. creativity is a spiritual process.