earth & fire

The hunger of Fire has no need

For the reliquary of the future;

It adores the eros of now, 

Where the memory of the earth

In flames that lick and drink the air 

Is made to release


Its long-enduring forms 

In a powder of ashes

Left for the wind to decipher.

~ John O’Donohue, excerpt from ‘In Praise Of Fire’