What She Speaks When I Tend Her Flame
Erin Aurelia
I transform, she says:
the raw meat into food
the raw thoughts into poetry
the raw materials into arts and crafts
the raw ore into weapons and tools
the raw plants into healing draughts
in your heart, distress to peace
in your mind, worry to reassurance
in your body, death into life, then life into growth
in your life, suffering into power
I transform, by the grace of the flame
She said, you too can embody transformation:
from chaos to order
from complacency to vigilance
from disease to healing
from loneliness to togetherness
from otherworlds to thisworld
from outside to in
from self to others
like a gift
gifting is gracing
gift yourself, gift another, and then another
receive in grace, give in grace,
become grace
and then, we
become the Flame,
her flame in this world
so shine on:
for her, for you, for all
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