Kuan Yin | Prayer for the Abuser

                    To those who withhold refuge,

                    I cradle you in safety at the core of my Being.

 

                    To those that cause a child to cry out,

                    I grant you the freedom to express your own choked agony.

 

                    To those that inflict terror,

                    I remind you that you shine with the purity of a thousand suns.

 

                    To those who would confine, suppress, or deny,

                    I offer the limitless expanse of the sky.

 

                     To those who need to cut, slash, or burn,

                     I remind you of the invincibility of Spring.

 

                     To those who cling and grasp,

                     I promise more abundance than you could ever hold onto.

 

                     To those who vent their rage on small children,

                     I return to you your deepest innocence.

 

                     To those who must frighten into submission,

                     I hold you in the bosom of your original mother.

 

                     To those who cause agony to others,

                     I give the gift of free flowing tears.

 

                     To those that deny another's right to be,

                     I remind you that the angels sang in celebration of you on the day of your birth.

 

                     To those who see only division and separateness,

                     I remind you that a part is born only by bisecting a whole.

 

                     For those who have forgotten the tender mercy of a mother's embrace,

                     I send a gentle breeze to caress your brow.

 

                     To those who still feel somehow incomplete,

                     I offer the perfect sanctity of this very moment.

                     Kuan Yin*

 

* Kuan Yin --- Goddess of Mercy and Compassion: 'one who regards, looks on or hears the sounds of the world.' 

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