Orchid = UNIQUENESS “In the Butterfly Pavilion”
“Singletons”
You will never rub the edges off each other, says the Orchid – and that is a good thing. You don’t want to. We’re not here to “bland out” or diminish each other. We are here to enhance and free each other.
We pay homage to each other’s special qualities. Naturally it helps to know where each other is headed but not even the Self really know that. Ultimately, we are mysteries to each other.
We must be each other’s Map and each other’s Mirror. The challenge is to accept and honor each other’s strangeness; singularity. You were drawn together for a reason. Sometimes it prickles and we feel ourselves shrink, or even withdraw. That is the rhythm of the tango we have undertaken.
Many Soulmates welcome costume and role play to try to express the range of interests, the force of questions, the eagerness of exploring and adventuring we will always have. The key is to be aware of the rhythms of advance, retreat, resist, re-fashion, re-remember. Expect these. They are necessary to our continued growth. Our relationship is a greenhouse and we must check constantly on the health of our tiny plants. Fill air and soil with love and…release.
In the Butterfly Pavilion
This evening you said you wished
I was more conventional.
I bowed my head. I did not speak.
Outside the animals leaned together,
Holding breath
To hear my answer.
The cats-tongue ferns
Swelled up like swords, pushed out the stink
Of possibility while
The rabbit-blooded lawn curled back:
Sows littered in the cyclamen
Phlox flamed
Dwarf stars
Broke free
Spew molten ore
Across a sky now
Darkening to night.
Nighttime is my kingdom.
I fold my hands in my sleeves and
Wait.
Alysse Aallyn 
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