The Story of Fire

[Guest guest]

The story is a liar.

It convinces us of our honesty

and says we have songs worth singing.

There is no i without You,

nor will this hold water in the basket

of fragile humanity wanting Love.

i've always been a wandering stream of fluid longing.

Where is there to go

or what can i ever hope to do

to bring about the union of this Mystery

meeting Itself in us and setting everything

on fire?

i am cinders and ash,

already burnt by Shiva coming Home.

He can take the dust

and make it sizzle in a new way.

He can call up funeral dirges quicker

than we can die.

i often wondered as a child

what dying was like.

It's to give everything you think you are

over to the One,

the One Who seeks to annihilate any trace

of i, and in this,

in this Love that destroys worlds

and space and and any trace

of anything,

anything that wants to stop Him

as He dissolves time,

i live in That.

Associative mind?

i'm a senior associate in that firm.

And i'm here to tell you,

He has a firm handshake on the situation.

The deal was clenched before i

was even created.

Pre-existence pre-singed us and is written

in the fine lines

of our Heartbreak.

i call out "FIRE," and cringe

when past memories seek to sink me

in the idea that anything can touch me.

As i burn in the churning reactivity and recoil

of what is not, of what has never been,

i think i know what sin means.

i missed the mark that was burnt

on my own Dear Heart

long before you, or i,

or any idea of this,

this nonsensical belief in separation ever began.

i am not many.

i am my own kin and i win

when i lose at the game.

This Heart hears and peals

Its own death-knell.

Nowhere to go and nothing left to do,

so here's the new rule

Beauty-birthed in Konya

as i came into flower beneath the green shawl

of He Who hastened this demise -

 

Here's the new rule...

 

"Break the wineglass and fall

into the Glassblower's Breath."*

 

i walk across my own shattered image.

There is no one left to bleed.

 

*Rumi

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie