ONE FLAME

Have you, like me, not laid in the dark awake?

Have you, like me, not sought an abiding grace?

Have you, like me, not opened your inward eyes?

Have you, like me, not seen the ocean rise?

Can you discard your human skin, oh snake?

Can you not surf & crest on the prism wave?

Can you well up & spread like silver quick...

& then return to the flame of the single wick?

When you become your luminous self divine 

Return to the ebb & flow of timeless time.

The pearl resides beneath the sifting layers

& here is there & now is everywhere.