Poem: Kiss the Flame

[alee_grrl]

This poem was written for ashestosnow who poetree Climbing the Poet's Tree Challenges #13 over the summer. Zie was very patient in waiting for hir prize. Zie requested a poem on spiritual encounters with fire or trial by fire. Thank you for your patience!

Kiss the Flame

Fire
burn through
my troubled
soul. Cauterize
these old wounds, destroy
those pockets of poison
that have lingered for so long.
I stare across the burning coals
and envision the lies of my past
and the lost child I once was. Kiss the flame.

Benediction whispered, I stride across
glowing coals unhurried and without
hesitation, feet kissed by fire.
Reminded that I, my strength
my very self, was forged
within life's furnace.
I crossed the coals
found grace and
stoked soul's
fire.

Comments

[alee_grrl]

Thank you for commenting! :)

Depending on how you experience the poem and read it, it can even read like it's a command to the soul. Just for the duration of a candle's flicker, you can read it like that.

I love this reading of it.