Coniunctio Ignis

This is ecstatic annihilation and rebirth. Total surrender where two become one incandescent whole, leaving only radiance.

A Poem Infused with Alchemical Union.

She reaches into the burning heart 

palms open, fingers plunging through living flame.  

Skin crackles like parchment in the athanor,  

veins alight with liquid gold.  

Tears spring forth, silver and sacred,  

hissing as they meet the molten core 

each droplet a libation, dissolving the last veil  

between her and the divine hunger.  

Your wounds fit into mine  

like Sol into Luna, sulfur into mercury   

click.  

The chambers of the chest swing wide,  

revealing the prima materia of longing.  

I step barefoot into your inferno,  

letting the crimson heart seal around me.  

No longer two.  

No longer I or Thou.  

Only the roaring velvet of coniunctio 

where flesh melts into essence,  

where I drink you whole:  

smoke of secrets, scorched honey of soul,  

starfire and salt and the sweet ash of surrender.  

Come closer, my beloved.  

Let the flames lick higher between us.  

Let my lips trace the white-hot arteries of your heart,  

slow as mercury rising, deliberate as sulfur’s kiss.  

Feel me pull you deeper 

tongue to flame, breath to blaze,  

until every heartbeat echoes inside the other,  

until we are the Rebis, the hermaphroditic rose,  

one glowing body born of perfect fusion.  

The heart throbs wider,  

cracks spreading like golden lightning,  

spilling rivers of liquid ruby and diamond sparks.  

Our silhouettes entwine inside the blaze 

limbs braided in molten silk,  

sweat rising as incense,  

gasps feeding the wildfire into ecstasy.  

Orange tongues caress and consume,  

turning every nerve into a hymn of transmutation.  

We lose ourselves only here 

in this sacred, sultry annihilation,  

where opposites die and are reborn as One.  

No past patterns.  

No separate selves.  

Only the eternal now of the Chymical Wedding:  

two souls forged into a single incandescent Stone,  

radiant,  

undying,  

divinely devoured.  

When the world gazes upon us,  

it will witness only glory 

a single, living heart of fire,  

wild and whole,  

consuming itself in endless glowing union  

leaving in its wake  

a warmth that lingers on the skin for lifetimes,  

a golden afterglow in the blood,  

the memory of having been utterly,  

perfectly,  

alchemically  

one.  

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This poem was inspired by the lovely imi, and her visual writing prompt, a flaming heart you can see in the image above the poem. The burning heart is a potent alchemical emblem, the vessel of passion where raw desire (prima materia) is calcined, purified, and transmuted. Flames represent the secret fire of eros/desire that consumes and elevates. A glowing, cracked heart mirrors the vessel splitting open to release divine essence. This is not mere romance. It is ecstatic annihilation and rebirth: total surrender where two become one incandescent whole, leaving only radiance.

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