11/23/2025
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FEELING THE FLAME
Love settles like a sigh of light that drifts into my bones;
It soothes me with a silence that echoes to my soul,
In that soft pause, creation sleeps, content within its glow,
For nothing needs to move there - no push or pull to know
But comfort dulls the edges of the fire Iβm called to wield;
Too much of love turns weightless, like a breeze that cannot shield.
My spirit, born of motion, aches for chaos shaped to form,
For beauty forged from nothingness, awakened by the storm.
So life becomes the spark that cracks the quiet in my chest;
The fall becomes the furnace where my idle hands are blessed.
In shatterings, I kindle all the truths I had misplaced,
And rise again with burning wings reborn from what I faced.
For love is both the stillness and the force that moves the flame,
A pull between remaining whole and rising as I am.
When the downward drift begins, I sometimes choose to stay,
But other times I dive to feel the blaze rebuild my way.
For I was shaped by ashes that remember how to rise -
The phoenix, born in me, forever burns to make me fly.
Heather Lea