The following was written by my friend Miranda when she was 14… she recently sent to me as a New Year’s message. (When I was 14 I was doing much less productive things.. lol)
The child embraces the speeding storm
And it carries her off in a fit of hunger.
She rises to the Heavens
And floats amidst the Stars.
Darkness comes
and all is swept away.
She stands alone in a timeless void,
in the midst of Nothingness,
at the Beginning of All.
Her eyes wander
and find nothing ever was real.
She reaches out with curious fingers,
that warm to the touch
of an unseen Flame.
Her heart weeps of a renewed joy
for here is her happiness,
her pleasure, revived.
She drifts closer,
its flickering flames licking her skin.
She becomes engulfed by its heat
and she gains a glorious power
and strength is returned.
For the Flame is Eternal,
the Beginning of Life itself.
It holds within it
the Seed of Time.
The child knows this
and cherishes it all the more,
for it has set free her soul.
There are no boundaries
which she cannot cross.
And she knows she will return
to this endless Nothingness
and this place that began Everything.
For here, all journeys begin.
And the Flame that kindles All
will receive each curious child
who intends to seek its cheer.
She called it the Ageless Flame,
for its light will never dim,
its Flame never grow cold.
And it was never born,
it just was.
-Miranda Pierson
The Ageless Flame
