Walking on
Embers
The indescribable golden of the
flame
In its sublime, divine dance
Fascinates the senses and causes
fear
Showing us the power of the
unknown.
The heat that warms
up also
kills,
And tells us about the power of
reality.
This ephemeral, subtle, powerful
welcoming force
Invades the depth of our soul
step by step,
Heating our body with a
different energy.
The wind blows the flame into
our direction
Its beauty is so soft,
That it takes away all the doubt
and fear,
Transforming us into one sole
thing.
Then it goes away in its
magnificence,
Leaving us imbued of its power;
And now this power is me too.
What is all this?
It is the Supreme being, that
behind the flame,
In His essence expressed in the
source
Generates the flame that salutes
us.
He is the ember, the fuel, the
coal, the Whole;
He sustains the fire with His
divine power.
The flame is gone, the essence
is there,
Materialized in the incandescent
coal,
In the lava that erupts, in the
fire that destroys.
We are identified by the flame
that was blown.
I am the flame now in search for
the source;
I need to feel Him in his
intensity
Standing in unison for a moment
in His bosom.
The steps are mechanical, the
certainty is clear.
I am the fire that purges, I am
the son of God.
I am the walk on the embers,
I am the one who walked and was
in harmony,
I am the manifest, warm one,
I am the image and the likeness
of the Whole.
I walked intimately on the embers
Feeling the power that hides in
me.
I am in Aloha,
I am fire
too;
I felt the soft feeling of the
on the flame
Delighting myself in the harmony
of the threesome Being!
Sebastião de Melo