Fire's Thoughts

The Thoughts of Fire

I hunger
I consume
I devour
I lust
I dance whilst I haphazardly sing

I can leap forth and ignite the woeful misgivings of lies
Melting each layer upon layer of falsehoods concealed
Finally revealing the charred bones of sheer truth
and the whispered words once spoken in trust

Erotic
Hypnotic
Beckoning
Stimulating
My tongue can lap away at the core of wetted whims
Simmering images reflected
Setting to boil dark desires
Smoldering
Longing
Radiating fantasies whilst teasingly withholding
I may allow the Night a small flame
to blaze away all of her consummated sins

Heated, I can willfully entice poets
to become inflamed with intensity beyond all sane reason ~
Causing sonnets to be birthed and the flourish of passions to come about

Extinguished, in part, I disperse the ashes of my tarnished memory
upon as yet uncharted virgin lands ~
Lands of the Mind, fertile ground ~ with those creative words of the poet
as kernels planted in proper season
One day from the blistered soil I heated with my temper,
their tender words will beget the blossoms of ballads
Watered with love they will sprout

I never yield
Forbidden ~ Never may I cry
I may singe into the very depths of a soul
Kindling branches dry found there
‘Scorching and searing innocent embers
by exhaling my parched breath
in the way of a heated and devilishly tempestuous sigh

Flickering
Taunting
Romancing
Combustible
Captivating and enhancing
With my sweltering vision I possess all that I survey
I can lay waste then raise even the harshest fields;
Muddied and drenched when Sorrow's tear ~ streaked face gazed low
and flooded out the rivers of her vast shame
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Only one single glance thrown by my reddish-yellow eye
I could leave the remnants of my toil to be found barren of seed
Awaiting these lands for lost lovers to till and reclaim
and cultivate the fruits borne out of romance and heartbreak
Whilst I calm my soul then haltingly recede

For is it not so recorded that in the Garden, in The Beginning, it is written that
Adam did knoweth of Eve?

I am the elemental being of all things known
From the moment a silent Universe was thrust
from the womb of Creation and was granted birth
I have sired
I have served
I have transgressed
I have yearned
I was called upon to vanquish many a plague
I have become
I live and I breathe
I exist and I am
I have evolved knowing both knowing of Peace and of Rage

Furious
Spontaneous
Consuming
Oblivious
Incinerating through the act of immolation
Living creatures have come to fear me
Those long dead still revere me
Whilst humanity dreads and shudders to think
of their ending; Embraced by my arms in cremation

I am Fire - Majestic
I am the Lamplight of the Gods
My scepter ~ torch to be raised on high
I will be young when you are old
I will dwell amongst you forever
Setting the pyre-inferno alight with vivid conflagration
My burnt offerings of thought bellowing smoke as a symbol
to be scribed upon the blank slate of blue skies

Never wavering or dimming
Never weak
Never needing
Always revered and hallowed, I am
Endowed with accumulated forbearance and knowledge of the sage

Honest
Brutal
Volatile
Kind, yet so cruel
My thoughts will be blackened forever ~
Throughout the passing cycle of each heavenly Zodiac Age

JWS, 24-25 May 00 (Saga) (reedit 27 May 00)

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