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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished about a year ago • 1 min read
Burning Bush from The Prince of Egypt

Tender boughs of inexplicable agony run through frail human veins

I touch the blue tendrils of flame

It sinks into my mortal sphere as a sinking breath that feels like a billion breaths in one

Grazing flesh not with searing flame but loving forgiveness, the blue light sinks

“I am who I am.”

Plunders, captivates, captures, I’m in rapture, floating yet drowning

Is this a bolt of lightning that struck me so deftly

A sliver of rainbow that floats along a single solitary cloud

The name that we feel with our heart, that blue flame that cannot burn out?

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Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

Fanfic account

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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    Written by Melissa Ingoldsby