Verbal Description
A landscape image
Burning wood, much of it turned to charcoal, is viewed close up. A deep, dark hole consumes the center of the image. The dark void is framed on three sides with a haphazard display of black and gray charcoal. On the left, a split log extends, angled beyond the image’s view. Splinters of the previously brown log are still evident as they meet a gray and black grid-like pattern of charcoal. More charcoal is layered along the bottom of the image. The right side holds another charcoaled log, towering vertically along the photo’s edge.
A slender, smooth silhouette of a flame rises out of the charcoal in the lower left corner. Its golden left edge turns into a bright orange color as it flickers beyond the top of the photo. A transparent orange mist echoes the flame’s right and lower sides making it seem like it is floating, not attached to anything tangible. More of this transparent orange mist is visible in front of the burnt log on the right, a sheer veil tinting the image with color. The mist grows increasingly dense near the lower right corner of the image, evidence of another flame not fully in view.
There has always been a fire
Deep within my heart
Sometimes shrouded
By a sea of emotions
Tempering the wild flames.
Recent winds of change
Breathe their life into awaiting ambers
Rekindling cosmic noncompliance
With a surreal status quo
That has never been real.
I can no longer still my soul
In submission to laws
That limit true power
In the overcrowded prisons of reason.
I have been served up
A healthy dose of “who says?”
And choose to comply
Only to the unseen sparks.
That light the fire within
And heat up
The commitment
The change.
