The Way of Water and Fire

life
as cries
for love
and our response
to tears

Not long ago, I took an incomprehensibly beautiful but complicated path. Time revealed I wasn't alone. We walked for years before kneeling on the margins of a tremendous river.

One of us water.
One of us fire.

Before the day passed, black bears came close; too close. We wrestled and eventually called upon the truth of whom each of us really are.

Water slipped happily into the river to became a salve.

Fire ignited – her womb a cauldron – and rose.

The two parted ways that day.

Lightening flashes – thunder follows – rain falls if Mother sees fit.

To know us is to be smudged by water or fire.

To forget us is to become Truth.

~

Stretches of highway as a blank page. Night falls first as pleated shadows before its dark afterbirth covers every thing. This Strawberry Moon. These bruised knees tucked behind his. A sadness that will pass.

Selah

~

I almost hocked my diamond engagement ring for reasons both more complicated and more base than I can overtly admit. What remains, unwritten so far, is my gratitude for Love’s intervening grace and the never-ending narrative of Another Way.