In the Heart of the Fire

"You tap into the energy beneath the skin, your flesh tingles, your mind expands, your breath deepens, and you can see the tides rolling in over miles of darkened sand. There's a hint of kerosene in the air, the molecules around you are pregnant with expectation, the world falls away. No more voices, no more eyes, no one else is here but you and the fire."

She flows around me, this red-orange angel

Swims through my consciousness, spins round my fingers

Builds a bridge between the physical and the spirit

Sears the sky behind her, wears the fire she was born in

Forges a world where only the soul exists

Pure emotion, tracing eights and eyes across planes

We become multidimensional together, tether worlds with the strength

Of lovers, I bring her close to my chest, feel her warmth

Burning the filth of my own imperfections from my flesh

I let her go, watch her spiral towards the heavens

Twin dragons chasing the spaces between us

She races back to me, wraps around my ankles, begs to carry me

Away, dances around me, embracing the spiral upward

Til she's over my head, opening a portal to freedom

Of expression, a screaming voice protesting my static existence

I spin with her, wrap her around my hands

I live for this moment, give all that I have

For her light against the darkness

For the eyes that grant me sight, for the purity of that moment

When the fire dies, and I breathe

Transported back from the world I lived in

Those moments

I am hopeless, she is transcendent

I am broken, and she is flawless

And when we dance, there are only secrets between us

Only the rhythm of her breathing, and my love

For the heat she brings, to the core of me

She flows around me, grows from candlelight to inferno

And I am a phoenix, risen from ash and bone

I am free, to become the point of contact

Between the world where I was born and

The world I've come to know

To dance across the borders of the soul

To collect the pieces that make me whole

We burn bright, twin stars on a clear night

And when we die, it will be because we have expended everything

Ascended beyond dreams, to a world that runs parallel to reality

Some will claim her my funeral pyre

Some will blame her when I expire

What they don't see is that what I live for

I have found, in the heart of the fire.