Fires of passion

There are profound parallels between love, given and received between men and women, and the communion of love that exists between Christians and God. In both ecstasy and passion are present; and to experience wonderful moments when we are touched by flames of divine or human love is beautiful and life enhancing.

Yet for those who know Christ, knowledge of love is focussed and found in the death and resurrection of our Lord. In the deep place there can be great pain. But it is out of the deep place that we find birth of new life and hope for the future. This poem invites reflection on that connection.

Fires of Passion

Fires of passion rise like flames
Touching embracing consuming
Life and feeling drawing
Into the heat of felt desire

Moments of ecstasy meeting
Reaching high never mundane
Glimpsing and tasting energies
Mysteries and wonders feeling

Seasons precious yet bursting
Sporadically infusing and exciting
Returning to smoulder in the heart
Lingering fond memories treasured

Deep within the fire truth born
Intense heat and power melding
Joining and fusing oneness
Transforming changing hidden parts

Sustaining power not destroying
Radiating and emanating essence
Warming holding caring reaching
From hidden depths of passion

Smiling and easily missed
Such fires live on
Sustained not by fleeting flames
Yet bursting out in moments of light

Such love is born of God