Originally Posted by
John Blaze
Thanks to my bff Befernee, who helped me with this one.
oh invisible flame
which burns me yet shows no proof
is your goal to maim?
to break me
leaving but a shell?
weaving your spell as you send me to hell and there compell my obedience?
or perhaps your goal is to uplift
to inspire me to greater acts
of spirit; extract the drops of soul
which remain
drain the evil and leave but light?
temper those drops of soul into the sword of right?
cleaving through the unworthy thoughts in my head
trimming the fat, as it were
leaving the lean bits of virtue?
and yet, what virtue? what if gristle be all you find, no bone, no substance?
fill me then, with borrowed right, with loaned virtuosness
grant me chastity at interest, in payments of fault which i shall excrete from my being
allow me to be the light through the prism
untinted, clear, bright
oh invisible flame
which burns me yet shows no proof
allow me to shine in the darkness
with the faith of the devoted.
help me feel what i can't
believe what I don't
see what I ignore
for the greater good