Selected poems from The Fire

Dancing of the Damned

We shine the light of shame

upon ourselves

We dance in joy

Ecstasy consumes our faith

Laughter overcomes us

Sweat streams down our face

It is not the pleasure of the moment

that drives us to perspire

It is Hell

warming up under our feet

Led Astray

Led astray by you

I think that you love me

But, you hate me

You use me

against Him

No Bars

The jail of this world

has no bars, no lock, no keys

I sit contently

There is no need for a watchman

Stones

Easily dazzled by false stones

Holding with a crippling grip

There is no value

yet I will not let go

Leap

Leap into the boiling fire

My friend advises me

I will join you there

It is enough for me to jump

In the pool, I see the torment

that he experiences and which now I share

Chorus

The senses conceive

of the endless pleasures

of this world

Drink, be merry

is the chorus

of the skeletons with the rotting flesh

The Cow

The ease at which I came to worship the cow

is frightening

We throw the light that You have cast upon us

and smother ourselves with dirt

Happy and giddy

We dance in our own filth

A Mosquito's Bite

My treasures

I seek to hoard

with deranged eyes

I hunt any approach

with a warriors strength

I defeat all usurpers to my throne

but yet I am undone

by a mosquito’s bite

Pride

Pride burdens me down to the ground

and smothers my face

causing me to drown

I want to speak

but with every word

the noose tightens

Lacking

Frivolous, careless claims of love

We offer to you

They fall silently to the floor

since the substance of deeds are not present

Our mind, soul, and all

are weighed down

by the heavy chains

that we heap upon ourselves

 

Bound to the profane

Our hands cannot even

lift up in prayer

Deceived

The world is a veiled bride

Perfumed and glittering

I hungrily answer her call

My anticipation is increasing

with every step to the marriage bed

 

I forget those who have nurtured me

 

For you my bride, I sacrifice all

 

My prayer beads are thrown into the fire

The devotion to my mother is forgotten

My kinship with my brother is abandoned

 

For you my love, I sacrifice all

 

Now I sit next to you

Your hand is like porcelain

And I shyly took at your beautiful face

 

To my horror, I no longer see my young bride

Instead I see a hag

A vile and wretched rotting corpse

 

She lunges

Captures me in a unbreakable embrace

 

I am writhing in pain

The grip tightens

Her cackling pierces my brain

 

I drift towards insanity

But I hear her final words clearly

 

For me,

You sacrificed all