Men, we are not less than for apologising. We are not weak, meek and passive. When we own who we are, we are liberated, empowered and free to grow and expand. Forgiveness (seeking or accepting) is expansive and is a sign of fucking strength.

I, we are sorry… for not listening when you were screaming your truth

I, we are sorry… for our abhorrent and oppressive ways

I, we are sorry… for our lack of sturdiness, stability, verticality and strength

I, we are sorry… for not seeing fully your truth and your innate beauty

I, we are sorry… for being blind to our own strengths

I, we are sorry… for allowing ego and the hunger for polarised power to infiltrate our hearts

I, we are sorry… for closing our hearts and choosing extreme expression

I, we are sorry… for forgetting who we truly are

I, we are sorry… for hurting, neglecting and rejecting your wisdom and presence

I, we are sorry… for standing in lies and not in truth – for choosing the easy path

I, we are sorry… for not living to our potential

I, we are sorry… for the ignorance, the negating of your power, the suppression of your voice and the forgetting of your name

I, we are sorry… for the dishonesty, the cheating, the violence, the emotional abuse and the inflicted pain

I, we are sorry… the taking away of your womanhood, the dishonouring of your Universe

I, we are sorry… for our inability to temper the war within and the war ‘without’

I, we are sorry… for choosing to not reside in the heart and to not lay by your side when you opened your spirit

I, we are sorry… for being ignorant to your creative prowess

I, we are sorry… for being jealous and lashing out

I, we are sorry… for assuming, for walking away, for being scared and for losing our minds

I, we are sorry… for our embarrassment, our rejections and our projections

I, we are sorry… for choosing to not resolve our traumas and our fears

I, we are sorry… for not seeing your absolute, infinite and divine being

I, we are sorry… for not worshipping your body, mind, spirit and heart as we know we must

I, we are sorry… for exploring the outer world and not enough the inner

I, we are sorry… for not associating our verticality with our unexpressed vulnerability

I, we are sorry… for dividing, avoiding and running from truth

I, we are sorry… for lacking affection, openness and the withholding of authentic love

I, we are sorry… for the mass butchering, the ‘less than’ projections and the burning of the essence of you

I, we are sorry… the progressive, systemic, covert hacking of your beauty, expression and eternal flame

I, we are sorry… for not swallowing our pride, for holding prejudice, judgement and extremity in expression

I, we are sorry… for not being the warrior fucking kings we were birthed to be

I, we are sorry… for not being grounded in our balls

I, we are sorry… for not being integrated and choosing to hold on to our guilt, our shame and our pains

Please forgive us. Hold us in the vision of a healthy king and allow yourself to observe and feel the inclusive power that may emanate from all that we know to be.

One is always glad to be of service.

STEFANOS SIFANDOS

Relational Alchemist, Speaker & Author