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Dream 4: The Refusal of the Devouring Mother

In the glass cathedral of the office, two furies wore the masks of women.
One was venom whispered in corridors, a small jealous snake with a girl’s face;
the other sat enthroned behind the desk, crowned with authority, eyes blazing like black suns.
They accused, they sentenced, they nailed the man to the cross of dismissal.
Yet he stood in the aisle of cubicles, unbowed,
a quiet pillar while the mob howled and the windows shook.
He would not kneel.
He would not leave.
He simply remained,
and in that remaining he became untouchable. Then the taller fury, the one with power to kill,
let her gaze slip past the rage for a single heartbeat.
In that stolen glance burned something older than anger:
a dark ember of hunger,
the first red spark of respect dressed in desire.
The blade she had raised to cut him down
trembled, half-sheathed, half-drawn,
and the dream itself smiled, knowing the war was already over.Dream 5After the storm, silence.
No thunder, no accusation,
only the soft turning of a page no one had yet written. Somewhere in the afternoon of the world,
a single woman walks ahead of him down a corridor of light.
She does not look back.
She does not need to.
The invitation was never spoken by her lips;
it was pronounced by the whole unseen senate of the soul,
ratified by every shadow that once screamed,
sealed like gospel in the air itself. All that remains is the waiting,
the exquisite hush before the door opens,
the heart practising its one line:
“I am here.” Between the two dreams the same man walks,
once crucified and risen in the same breath,
now summoned,
not as accused, not as victim, not even as lover,
but simply as the one who finally learned to stand still
until the feminine mystery decided
it was safe to turn around and speak.
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