Lilac Incense

Risky words lead to dangerous thoughts with perilous emotions. 
Desire can lead to the tree of life, yet you must manage its compulsions.

Either I trust you or I don’t, so I do.
It’s not to your heart, but to your mind
And conscience that I plead your will is true.
If I am to be a stumbling block, I won’t let it be to you.
Hesitation is the seed of defeat;
Half-commitment the poisonous taint.
Let your desire play hard and never cheat,
Fly, run, and waltz it without restraint.
Let each fire burn its way to the end that it deserves;
And if it refreshes forevermore, there should be nothing held back from its reserves.

A train can only attain its course riding one set of rails,
Past the fork no honest force can change that path and escape woe’s wails.
Once the plow is in the hand there is no turning back,
Desire has set its course and you must guide its track. 
Nothing half-done can satisfy,
Forsaking love for greater truth, 
Resolved to act while still wondering why;
Time reveals that love was lust in its youth
When the more true love arrives.
Perseverance with desire through the trials of the heart,
Will lead you through great fire 
To a greater sight than dreamed on your part.

If feelings have the power to sway our will and reason, 
Pleasure is sure for now. 
Indulgence brings with it friends, 
And when the crowd our vision clouds 
Death is harvested out of season.

Breathing life into now-dead ideas we feed what we wish not.
But if we turn and look away, in another trap we’re caught.
Life must take new courses when its own are cut short,
Blooming radiantly, harmonizing, giving the new path its support.

Desire burns me deep without mercy, and I crucify it back each day. 
Wisdom prunes desire’s buds to feed real hope, and pull lust from its prey.
The conflict is less bitter, sweet more—
The hope I had to be taught I wanted 
Feels so good to be fighting for.
Innate desire is by contrast so simple, 
Limited by the scope of self
Red in tooth and claw, unafraid to cripple.
Strength under control is the mark of great force,
Power with restraint from time’s master
Is able to marry desire to beauty it will never divorce.




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