Fire and Earth
/Dear friends,
If the journey has taught me anything, it's that the path towards freedom is longer than we think it is. And along the way, there will be many fires. But perhaps those fires are more than meets-the-eye. Maybe they're there to burn away at old parts of us that just aren't serving us anymore.
Where there's smoke, there's fire. And where there's fire, there's transformation. May the words you read and write, dear friends, cause many fires throughout your lives. Here's a poem from Thirsty Camel that I called "Fire and Earth." It tells this very same tale of rising from the fires and emerging as something different. Something stronger. Something transformed. This is why I wrote it. This is why we burn...
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Fire and Earth
a new age begins
when we strip off our clothes
our nametags and labels
and surrender ourselves
to the Truth
our birthright is love
and our roles
no more than characters that we play
however well-intentioned
what matters the most
is naked runs through the woods
our only clothing
is the warriorpaint
that we adorn on cheek and breast and brow
like a head plunged fiercely
into the rush of a waterfall
a battle cry erupts
from the lungs of the goddess
and we emerge
transformed
today
the veils dropped
human denial replaced by fire and earth
burning like sunrays
on fair skinned travelers
but solid like the soil and
wet with vegetation
from the other side of the river
smoke rises from the shore
there is a clearing where fire
meets earth
i’ll meet you there
naked
at last
© 2015 Brandon Thompson