To Understand Fire<\/p>\n
is to have learned
\nin three dimension
\nthe colors
\nof your soul …<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Such understanding
\nis most easily acquired
\nin the quiet company
\nof spirits and strangers,
\nor those who have walked
\nthe unlit path
\nof never again,<\/p>\n
and rarely occurs
\nin the living,
\nwho often prefer
\nthe dullness
\nof half tones
\nand pale shades
\nof grey
\nto dazzling yellows
\nor deep wells
\nof blue.<\/p>\n
To understand fire,<\/p>\n
one must walk
\nbarefoot
\nin the place
\nwhere blistering grace
\ndrips oil and blood
\non the flame
\nof all
\nyou thought
\nyou were,<\/p>\n
as if to see
\ngod
\nwithout skin
\nand not look away
\nwhen you recognize
\nyourself
\nin the marrow.<\/p>\n
Such understanding comes<\/p>\n
only
\nwhen you have gazed
\nwith three eyes
\ninto the mirror
\nof melting ice,
\nand, reaching through
\ncold glass,
\nyou feel your fingertips
\nbrushing against
\nthe jagged edges
\nof your soul,<\/p>\n
where bright red sorrow
\nbleeds into the whiteness
\nof your memories,
\ntriggering an avalanche
\nof tipping points
\nand tears
\nin the fabric of time;<\/p>\n
then chaos
\ncoming in loops
\nof furious spin
\nand fading hope,
\nas inertia falls in love
\nwith itself
\nin a death spiral
\nof endless grieving …<\/p>\n
and you lie
\nin cold sweat,
\nas if newly wounded
\nunder the dark snow
\nof knowing;<\/p>\n
and<\/p>\n
in a rush of blood
\nand time gone by,
\nyou remember
\nswirling black holes
\nand how the dead
\nlearned about Light
\nfrom under the ashes,
\nand how music
\ncan breathe magic
\ninto the throat
\nof a tongueless bell;<\/p>\n
and the smell of rain
\nmakes you want …
\nmakes you want
\nto inhale all that is good,
\nand you find yourself
\nbreathing again,
\neven as the stillborn
\ndove falls silent
\nat its own
\nbaptism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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