Bright flame

I see your soul

and it is beautiful

Sometimes this inner beauty makes me weep

I know without a doubt

this world needs your light

It comes from hard won experience

And from the realisation

everything we had to endure

that led to here

just had to be

and this includes our struggle

For sometimes it is only

the pain bought by an absence of light

through the fall into the dark

that the longing for light is found

deep within the forest

of our heart

and when that desire lights a spark

our spirit it catches fire

from the transmitted vibration

of a waking soul’s

bright flame