LOVE’S FIRE

I fought with love, I rejected it, I was scared of it, I denied it, I was angry with it, I couldn’t even say the word 

I didn’t let love in to the depth of my being, I didn’t let its transformational fire burn up everything that was not itself

And then I fell into the deepest love I have ever known

This love made me mad 
It turned me into a poet
It destroyed everything 
That was no longer needed

And this love took me to the darkest areas of my self and cast a light on them. It demanded all of me

It said, ‘Burn in the fire, let love take everything and give up yourself.’

I walked willingly into the fire

And then I embraced love, I welcomed it, I became it, and I didn’t stop talking about it

It started as personal love, and then it became love of everything

I was a guy who couldn’t even say the word love

Now I speak of nothing else.

I wrote this piece a few years after meeting Amoda, who brought me face to face with all that still remained of my own self on my transformational journey.

The result was love x