I have a friend who sings, who writes and sings, his stage name is L@yo. The first time I saw him was in a concert on Instagram during the first summer of the pandemic. I love his voice. His delightful voice. One day he sent me one of his songs for me to listen to. That song has become something very special for me, it has lots of love. It’s a song that connects me with my friend and his sensitivity, but also connects me with my female self, and with the female self of women around the world both past and present.

The first time that I listened to the song it seemed really beautiful. I listened, and then I listened again. And then a third time with Juanpe, paying attention to the lyrics. And there was something new that surprised me, but it took me a while to realise what that was. My friend’s song is a song to women. A song that has empathy, adoration, and anger at injustice, a very profound song that spreads lots of love. And what seemed new and surprising to me was the form of that love. My friend is gay, and it isn’t that this matters, but yes it does. Because he has been able to create something that conveys love from a man to a woman without sexualising her or making her the protagonist of a romantic vision. My friend’s love is purer and more beautiful, free from toxicity. From my point of view, that makes L@yo’s song have a clarity, recognition, and a certain objectivity in the vision of love that it translates, something that millions of love songs that other men have dedicated to us don’t have. I hope you understand me and can see what I’m trying to say.

L@yo has supported me a lot during the making of this blog and I am eternally grateful to him. I think that each and every one of us is empowering ourselves in our own way through exploring and sharing the depths of our being, and that connects us even more. When I read to him the ‘About’ page (About), he really liked the dedicatory ending, so we have also used it to commemorate this song.

This is the video of the song, which is called You have done so much good to me, and has been recorded through a very valuable platform that supports original artist projects: Puipana R.E.C. (Revelation, Effort and Creation).

I identify with some of the lyrics, and what resonates with me most at the moment is that phrase revolution under your skin. Because I feel like a sort of revolution has started within me, physically through the removal of the fibroids during the operation (Pre-operation), and also emotionally, because of the strength I am gaining as a result of all of this. It is a deep revolution that is leading me to win battles and leave behind the weight of past experiences, prejudices, and insecurities. My energy is changing. And little by little I am reconnecting with my female self , which is giving me back my confidence and intuition, my understanding and self-love.

I am one of those people who still have hope in the world and believe that a change is possible, a change for the better. Although I am aware that for some things, we are arriving too late, and the climate crisis is an evident reality. The vision of change and hope that I cherish boils down to the possibility to share, communicate, and collaborate. To empathise and accompany. To build together, to revitalise ourselves and regenerate our relationship with the environment. I want this journey to reconnection to contribute to that positive change, a change in which we need allies and collaborations. This is my first collaborative post and I hope it is the first of many in which sharing my journey means sharing others’ too.

These are the lyrics of the song: