Living with my Totem

I received this today from a new-found friend, one who has known me since my formative years. I can not even begin to do justice to these words by attempting to paraphrase them, so I offer them here, unedited, for your understanding...and my own remembrance.

"There are men too gentle too live among wolves. Who toss them like a lost and wounded dove. Such gentle men are lonely in a merchant's world unless they have a gentle one to love." James Kavanaugh

You came to mind immediately. Reading it over again. This is where my thoughts led me......

I sense two parts of you. The fierce side, and the gentle side. Contradictions with in the same soul. A lion and a lamb.
The Lamb, loving, calm...protective, satiated. The Lion. Fierce, longing, tearing at its own flesh. Self created pain in order gain growth and wisdom.

The Lion appears. Many, many women have tried to coax the Lamb back out. They are foolish, selfishly wanting your protective love. That is because it is a protective energy that is addictive. A love that wraps around you...
I think you may fight with this yourself at times. Especially while in a new relationship.

My intuition tells me that riding the wave....is better than fighting your nature. The Lion has his attributes. He has an intense fire. He seeks growth and wisdom. And after tearing at his own flesh he always sinks back and licks his own wounds...providing healing.

Accepting that part of you is very important.