Elemental Prayer

Fire:

You demand nothing
less than our totality
to burn
the brilliant flame
of vision

a sparkling trail
of burning diamonds
running wild along the
fuse of our imagination,

You are the force
of our dreams,
the brilliant jewel
in the Way Shower’s crown.

Water:

You run through
our bodies,
a river of blood
coursing to the ocean

mixing raindrop after raindrop
into the eternal mixture-
the heady elixir
drunk from Mother’s own breast,

You pour the rest
into our cupped hands
so we may wash
our faces.

Earth:

You solid black hole
You are the space we
cannot see
but know,

while all around
You spring illusions on us:
green trees
turning dead
frozen ground
turning raw, wet brown.

Becoming the void,
we enter You,
the womb for birthing
Bears and Warriors,
we become what we eat of You.

Air:

Light as starfall
You sweep over our
desert minds
gone dry from waiting too long
to drink.

We think You into being,
the All Consuming Mind.
We think we are
not thirsty anymore.

Only we do need
the kiss of Your breath
to hum us home.
And don’t judge us harshly,
We only think we know.

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