"What is to give light must endure burning." --Viktor Frankl

“I have wasted years of my life
agonizing about the fires
I started when I thought that to be strong you must be flame-retardant”

--Amanda Palmer, Ampersand

“When you learn to love yourself
You will dissolve all the stones that are cast
Now you will learn to burn the icing sky
To melt the waxen mask
I said to have the gift of true release
This is a peace that will take you higher
Oh I come to you with my offering
I bring you strange fire”

--Indigo Girls, Strange Fire



28 August 2011

Revelations


Circa 2002: The result of navel gazing, not a formal writing prompt.


One linguistics course
and one manic summer
later I discovered God
is Universal
Grammar and
I am
just one more
imperfect speaker,
uttering one more religion,
one more dialect, one more creole,
at home only in my own vernacular.



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