Sin and Ash

The encrustation of sin
Overlays our pure selves.

We must burn this biological remnant,
This blackened karma,
Down to it’s primordial ash
Through the energetic inner itch,
The fire of tapas.

Not through self-immolation,
Nor personal flagellation,
Or even remembrance and recrimination,
But rather with fiery determination
Through steely meditation
And emotional pacification.

Let the inner fires burn.
Change the smelter into urn.
Leave nothing save carbonic churn.
Liberate the energy,
Send past transgressions to the sea,
The universal urgency
Discarded, leaving only peace.

The desire,
Quenched by the fire,
Incarnation of human ire,
Disappears from the earthly pyre;
Saves us from sin’s living hell,
The residue of human evil,
Ignorance and pathology,
Disease and mistaken philosophy.

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