Baptized In Fire

Baptized in fire, the end of this empire stripped me down to my bones Detached from everything I’ve known Sometimes it feels like my life has been scorched from the earth Life beyond conceivability The trivial has burned away The sacred is calling from the flames It burns the dross away And I know I’ll never be the same I’ll never be the same Converging, submerging beneath the burning waves Purification, consecration Refining, purifying, I’ll never be the same Regeneration, baptized in fire In flames, in pain, the sacred and profane separated in the belly of the fire Detached from every raw desire Sometimes it feels like my life has been made for rebirth Baptized in fire Shifting shimmer the depths call out to me Golden glimmer into the underneath