Fire And Water

The fire that burns in me today 

Will also burn in me tomorrow 

In all derangement and all sorrow 

Its shadows shall the walls display.

Outside the opening of a cave 

Or out of the volcanic crater 

Is seen the truth of the creator

And everything that he may save. 

It is in everything that's true 

And also everything apparent - 

The sky, illumined and transparent, 

Alit in pink and white and blue - 

Reflects him as though through a prism 

And into multi-colored splednor 

The universal truth is rendered, 

Like lava bursting through the schisms. 

The fire that burns in me today - 

A spark of all-consuming plasma - 

Will percolate like a miasma 

Into the place where shadows play - 

Will burn the skin of all therein 

And fill their noses full of poison 

And make the place destroyed and noisome 

Until in cave they can't remain; 

But burst into the higher mind 

From higher mind to higher senses 

And as their spirit-form advances 

They see the sun, but go not blind - 

But burn through stone, through barren rock 

And smash and tear and rise to passion 

Shaking the earth like a concussion 

And time resetting like a clock. 

Water in heights; in water, heights - 

In heights of mind exists life's essence 

And in its gentle incandescence 

At truth of universe arrives 

In water, heights; and as its waves 

Engulf, carress the restless kernel 

Etheric merges with infernal 

To cleanse the confines of the cave, 

And send its members through the core - 

Into the ever-waiting heaven - 

And then return into the cavern, 

This to repeat forevermore.