Into the Fire of Consciousness
Into the Fire of Consciousness The velvet dark of slumber broke, And silence of the mind awoke, No gentle dawn, but sudden, stark, A burning coal within the dark. One steps beyond the veil of dream, And wades into the blinding gleam, Where thought is stripped of easy form, And sheltering illusions storm. The Ego’s wood begins to char, Exposing scars from near and far, The fear one hid, the truth one shunned, Are rendered bare, and now confronted. This is the forge where metal bends, Where knowing starts, and falsehood ends, A crucible of searing light, That burns away the day and night. One watches the self that was held as mine, Distort and flicker, then decline, Until a core, resilient, vast, Emerges from the fiery blast. No longer shadow, half-defined, But presence focused, sharp, refined; To meet the flame and not recoil, Is the soul's necessary toil. And from the ash, a fragile, new, Unburdened truth breaks shining through, To breathe the air, intensely free, Transformed, ye...