"What She Speaks When I Tend Her Flame" by Erin Aurelia

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Image: "Juvenile bird resting on human hand" by Razvan Narcis Ticu in Războieni, Romania. Image from Unsplash.