"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



14 August 2012

Inconceivable



Circa 2000: another of the prompts where you use words given to you, and another of the prompts for which I've forgotten the words...


He can’t be deceptive:
she knows
his taste, touch, smell, sight,
and sound by heart;
she knows his heart by sound:
by pressing her ear
to the left side of his chest, listening
for the eruption.

She can’t be deceptive:
he can read her heart,
her mind, find and unwind
every word, every thought
until it completely unravels
her thread bare
and him ready
to erupt.

No, it’s not the sex:
sex is deceptive;
it promises eternity,
but eternity lies
in conception;
it lies
in the desire
to abstract only his sound
from her silence:
it lies
in the deception
about to
erupt.

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