SACRAMENTAL
Closed eyes
Hot coals underneath my feet
I stand corrected
And with a mind roaming wild in the dark
I stand stripped
Stripped by my own opinions
Opinions coined from an undying quest to be free
What price do I have to pay to hold a conversation with my higher self
To bath in the river of tranquility
What shouldn’t I be?
I gaze on a sacred painting of a future where everyone understands their purpose
Such a painting does not exist
Every man is here to make another man’s story narratable
So I cling to a symbol of peace, a symbol of love or unforgivable sacrifice
To remind myself that I am a portal to many
A door to a stranger’s paradise
Or sometimes a rope in a tug of war
A rope in a tug of war?
As holy as the morning dew can be
My heart yearns to be
Yet at the end of the struggle between light and darkness
I stay lying exhausted on the soiled grass
Let the morning dew do to me what it does to the petals of the purple hibiscus
Maybe then I shall consider being an instrument of salvation
But for now
With closed eyes
Hot coals underneath my feet
I stand corrected.
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