Divided Rapture

I’ll forever hold a flame for you

Forever

For this flame be the same as every flame borne by every breast

Fanned by the same oxygenated inspirations blowing life into life

Life in its totality, delivered across the expanses of existence

Whether self-importantly stamped as ‘civilized’ or not

Tending to burn brighter when not, as uncorralled wild fire

Not trapped by machine, production and profit, burning for itself

Perfectly impartial, flames singing and surging up from intrinsic eternity

Heating our halls, setting itself upon dream and dread alike

Firing exhortations of every order, carried upon torches towards every hope

It is this flame that I carry for you, that which warms all things

Forever burning and brightening, billowing and bursting forth

Everything once dark, filled with the glow of your long stolen flame

Time cannot extinguish it, as it burned before time

It shall burn into eternity, through every resetting of the clocks

Through every wisp of it passed into every hosting heart

At the very moment of divine manifestation of new life

At the very moment when the Holy Ghost parts the curtain

Dropping the robes of apparition, born into flesh once more

This same flame, one flame, carried since before it could be felt

Before it could be folded into the bellows of vitalized being

It is this flame that I carry for you, can you not see?!

My forever dream, flickering in red and blue ephemera

Endlessly recast reminiscence, the divided rapture of two

Be my oxygen once more, when once I took full breaths!