Eternal flame 12/15/14

There we are, as the alone fires of two.

We started with these innocent flames,

composed of shavings and kindling

from the precipices of previous relationships.

The home of self as forest from within

yielding larger tinder pieces for wanting,

eventually offered for participation into this blaze.

We two, as ourselves,

made of interior backdrops

that allow for invitational warmth

and self-permitting softness towards light.

These flames, even in flicker, took stances

that we could see as reflected upon the other.

This allowed for both of us

to make contributions to the fire of ourselves.

Our face-to-face became a form of continuance 

and self-permissions united became our glow.

The light we generated,

being the oldest of the naturalness

out of both of us.

Dormant interiors from within each of us

got up to dance into the heart of this light.

There was a swim to the stir

of our shared awareness.

What was natural for us and from us

stepped forward in self-permissions granted.

All language was now formed

from the flames as tongues upwardly pronouncing

out the mouths of their fire.

Topics appeared with cathedral implications.

Tall spires of shared-ness

became evident in a co-melting presence.

Skin became a sense of conviction

feeling the current of reality for the warmth of it.

There was a blaze of our beings

coming forth out of our animated shadows.

Conversation became the kindling,

touch, an unexpected combust.

The fire stayed lit up with these immediacies.

Our spirits sharing

intoxicated our interiors commoning sky.

The actual burn became our momentaries as metaphor.

Our shared intimacy

then became the real flame,

our communal fire, the spirit of our light.

We, you and I, are always of this kindling,

of this kindred.

Bathed in ever-kindness as the eternal flame

is the subtle sightlessness, our ascension . . .