A poem about an image and an image about myself
I believed that intoxication came from outside myself
Something or someone
To spark my passion
My fire
I sought that spark as if my life depended upon it
Because in many ways it did
To be intoxicated with life itself
Is to be alive
I am led back to the source of my own intoxication
And it is not outside my doors
It is deep in the roots of my soul
Emanating from the earth
What I seek is already here
Waiting for me to turn around and notice
What I seek is on the other side of the darkness
That I have skirted once again
The darkness holds my passion
My fires
The essence of who I am
It holds within it the light of my being
Intoxication with being intoxicated
With the energy of spirit and of the earth
With life itself
And with being me
That is the only sustainable fire
The flame that no one can extinguish
The spark that lights up my eyes
And gives me life
DK Hillard 2022
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