Pure Fury

Pure Fury

...is extinguished by pure love.

Love
brought me into this world
but anger built me up
and kindled a righteous fury
which eventually burned me
right down to my ground.

I remember the night
when the fire went out
and waking the next morning
standing on the shore
of Rumi's prophesied ocean
called non-existence.

Oh
how it hollowed my soul
and took my breath away
as I began to realize
my life until this moment
had culminated in emptiness!

I shuttered
realizing my next breath
could be a prayer for peace
or the spark of a new inferno,
and the only way across this ocean
would be to learn how
to breathe beneath it.

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The enemy fought with savage fury,
and met death with all its horrors,
without shrinking or complaining:
not one asked to be spared,
but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
~ Davy Crockett