I tapped into a magic realm
I didn't even know was there--
found a phantom ghost
with firelight and embers
glowing in its hair--

                                was this a spirit
                                coming for me
                                                              ­someone who might
                                                           ­   somehow set me free
and bring me along
to another life
away from this hell I'm in?

                                                            ­ OR what if this is a monster
                                                              (n­ow that I see its evil grin)
                                                   and it wants to torture me even more?

What if I can't escape this spirit
through an open door...
and I become trapped for all of time?
oh dear, dreams are haunting me again
in this crazy realm of mine!

You are embers,
in the furnace of my heart,
chasing dragonflies,
the crinkle and clatter of
transparent wings
paper songs,
a million seconds,
have passed,
since we have laughed,
maybe it's time to move,
pass on the deed,
driven by need
to breathe
new air,
and experience life
somewhere,
new

Fleeting moments sending people
running through the trees
as the embers of the fire scatter
with our own passions
The lights sweeping the way
in which we once belonged
and will return to in their
absence.
Through the river, light and drunk
thrilled with each and every
escape, new acquaintances are made
and old ones are brought to
the board for transition.
To a higher state of mind the
commission brings us
closer.

Graceful sweet scent, upon the evergreen
The solitary life it must endure
Illusive, two seasons hidden between
A weathered, wounded heart it can not cure
For it is secret love that it desires
Passion brewing from a single, sole bud
Inside embers, burning, stoking the fires
Restless, the absence of peace, boiled blood
Under the dim light it will not be fazed
Lone in serenity, tranquil, it thrives
An alluring site one has ever gazed
Be still, in refuge and strength, it survives
It’s time, let go of the gem so comely,
Single, white harmony for my lovely

You're a daunting ember
in the back of my mind.
I'm afraid you'll catch fire
to my consciousness,
smoky tendrils wrapped around memories,
your flames kissing my thoughts
like how you used to kiss me.

I miss your spark.

i think, in another life, we were forests
worshiping the seasons, or maybe we still are,

bound to the earth by roots

perhaps we were minerals and crystals deep underground,
and we may have retained the fear of being buried

or we could have been the wind or water
for we still whistle and bubble our way around this planet.

and we still howl in the ears of the living

i like to think, in another life, we were fire
because we burn an impression on these lands

and can still be an inferno even when reduced embers

In the dream I am running through this maze.. It is vast and complex.. Many beautiful distractions are here.. Many who have entered have indeed made this place their home because of the paradise this maze creates for them.. I know I am close to finding the way out.. The final part of this maze is made up of many freezing chambers.. This is a cold that strikes the inside of bone.. I cannot get warm..

I fear death will have me in his cold arms soon. I am unable to move.. I can remember the lava chambers early on in this maze.. I carried with me then a device that would keep me cool in the extreme heat.. I helped out another person who almost died from the heat.. I kept him cool as we carried on through the horrible heat together.. We parted ways a few weeks ago..

I opened my eyes to a light shining in the darkness.. It was blue in color.. I also noticed that I felt a lot warmer.. The light was coming from my chest.. I found out what ever was shining was attached to my neck by a warm chain.. It was a blue ember of some sort.. It did not burn my skin at all.. It seem to create a field of ambient warmness around my body.. I stood up and saw another blue light in front of me.. It was the man I helped in the lava chambers!! The blue embers burned brightly as we walked together through the frozen labyrinth..