Intelligent Seductions III: Fire Dance

by Karyn Huntting Peters

Both searching and found, strong and weak, quietly demanding and silently pleading. It is you. It is both of us. I see the pools in your eyes. The fire burns in your soul. The pain lives in your heart. The depths, both yours and mine. The endless caves, further and further into the earth until the true sea shines crystalline in a light from some unknown star. It is not the sun as you know it. The sun pales beside it. It will burn you to your very core if you fear its coals beneath your feet.

It is here that this melted and flowing gift of the volcano finds its place deep within the waters that surrender to it. It is here that the stuff of a new world unseen by the dreamers is forged. It is here. This journey has lain dormant within your soul since its birth. You must have come to this by years of searching, by the quest for the grail. You must have found chalices of gold and jewels only to see them shattered and melted before reaching the deepest fire within. You must have stood in awe of your own ignorance to think you were looking for such treasures from a poor carpenter.

A warm breeze is blowing about you now. It caresses your thoughts as only one other would. It is not unlike the wind, warm and soft around your nakedness, that will enfold you when you dive from that cliff in search of the lost pearls that live beneath the earth. Close your eyes and breathe in the poignant density, the sensation of this other world. Feel the heady air enter your lungs. Inhale the scent as even now your presence alters it.

Release your thoughts. Feel the ancestral beckoning as the far-off music begins to echo in your mind. Feel yourself irresistibly drawn into a slow sway as you throw back your head, close your eyes, and in one breath release the façade. Let it burn away. It has lain so deep within for so very long. See the images before your closed eyes grow vivid and come alive as the boundaries between dreams and reality shimmer and fade into nothingness. You are falling, falling into caves where burning torches set ancient secrets aglow, where all becomes part of that which has existed since the beginning of time.

The dance has begun...