Apocalypse

PRAYER FOR PEACE:  Jan 11, 2016, 9am P.T.

FOCUS:  Apocalypse

Beloved,

This Love of Thine shall carry me

Into the heart of the flames

And hold me there with abstinence

Until my soul is charred black

And my mind, embers

Until my eyelids become ash

And vanish with the wind

That I no more may look away

From all that threatens to alter me

Until suffering becomes Glory

And I hold it like a precious jewel

And feel the pain of all the world

In the opening of a single wound

This Love of Thine shall carry me

Into the mouth of the cave

And stand in the shadows

Watching

As I scramble and agonize

Terrified of the dark

Left with nothing

But the horrors of my own imaginings

Until so consumed 

That my eyes turn inward

Flicker once

And are finally opened

To the Rapture

Of the Light and the Way within

This Love of Thine shall carry me

With a will to destroy

Into the Maelstrom

Like a reckless vagrant

As everything around me surrenders

To the rage of the storm

And my bones shake

In the ruins of the world

Until I no longer fear

Nor seek shelter

But am strengthened 

By this Apocalypse

And rise

Like the phoenix

Triumphant...

For I have seen what Love can do

Amen.

by Siren