Threshold

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Don’t fear the fire —
You yourself will shimmer
like a flame,
like a force being forced
through a charged field,
magnetic energy pulling strongly
in two directions at once

You will be changed
but you won’t be consumed.
It is ineffable,
inevitable —
You pass through and are ignited
and the silent heat
will ripple as it rises,
combustion of invisible gases
sending flames hotter, higher

This is just the way it is
at this emerging threshold —
Your being flows, transformed,
into the other side.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 20, 2014

14 thoughts on “Threshold

  1. Thanks, Wen, I love it! It is especially meaningful to me, here in Milwaukee at the NCECA clay conference.

  2. Well, because I feel that I have been through a personal barn burning, this poem is so meaningful. I am being reminded of my courage and strength. Thank you Wendy. I love you.

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