jadis si je me souviens bien sitting in a circle watching a bonfire where is the gaze going is turned outward returning inward inward to better see outward to illumine the effacer of traces gaze blazes on as fire burns the divide sparks fall into the sky vanishing drop back into the heart remembrance's heartbeat we are on time for the full moon of ashes tonight on time for the morning of embers she can speak now with her soft glow i hold you within me keep you i can not