Towards the Fire

Towards the fire make your  bow
The fire  of  life it calls you now
Touch your heart's deepest desire
Forge to purity in inner fire

Till burnt to ashes on sacred pyre
The foolish follies we so admire

The fire of life is a sacred ring
We push through it our lives to win
To breathe that first foul gulp of air
To win entrance to life's passing fair

suffuse your lungs witness the Light
Our very lives are paens sung to it
Dare to dazzle quench your sight.

The first light the first cache of empty air
Sets us aflame to burning blazing fire

This fire kindled the baby's lustful thrust
Immerse in it
Be what you must.

Fire your passions vow to seek
Your uttermost lofty peak to reach
Ignite shadows illuminate
Darkness, doubt and rein in fate.

Fate the steed with trailing reins
The master horseman
Shall gather it in.

The Dark world's untrodden unguarded path
hooves of light spurred by iron heart
Shall blaze a trail never looking back.

The lucky horse shoe is the one worn out.
Tread and gallop the path of doubt.
Dispel ignorance set your goal to win
not passive bliss but reach victory's inn.

Let Victory be the change of horse
That spurs you on to greater course
Lust for a life so lustrous
Burn away the dross of lust.

Beyond the maverick's muddied cause
Beyond the carnival of merry loss
What remains is truest to our
trust   
The Diamond of life that cannot rust.
      
Toward the fire take your bow.
The fire of life that burns you now.
To mettlesome heart and mind
and loving soul
All else was fuel
to merely feed your fire
Cold compressed coal.

The Diamond shines through the cold of grief and burning cross
And it is you
through  years of tears
and laughter
And the coils of mortal love
And lives hereafter
It is you
breaking upon the sandy reefs and lonesome cliffs of bitter loss.

You are
essence tried and tested
And passed anew
Through
the Fire of
Truth
Yes,
That always was
And will forever live on

The eternal spark
Of Life
Is you.

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(c) Amrita Valan 2014