Pain. Pain in the body. <br />Pain in the mind. <br />Pain. Feel the pain. <br />Go to the centre of it. <br /> <br />In the centre, a flame. <br />A cool, warm, steady, white, white flame <br />so white, that <br />it is more light than white. <br /> <br />Cool as detachment. <br />Warm as love. <br />Bright as enlightenment; <br />burning the unnecessary. <br /> <br />The flame of healing, <br />as old as the world. <br />As old as olive trees and oil and sacred lamps, <br />as old as wisdom. <br />In the flame, an angel. <br />That is what the angel said.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pain-165/
