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Your Fire

September 5, 2009
By 21stars GOLD, Longmont, Colorado
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -Hellen Keller

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Dive into the pain
Just avoid sinful relief at all costs
Live my nightmares everyday
Just because my heart is beating
Doesn't mean I live at all
Just because I smile at you
Doesn't mean I'm not terrified
The fire in your eyes
Taunts me as it offers me
False promises, serenity
It promises me peace and healing
But I continue to drown in my fear
My fear of you lies is what kills me
All the things you offer that you cannot give
Your fire cannot make me live

© Ashley D., Philadelphia, PA

The author's comments:
I refer to fire a lot in my writing. To me everyone has their own kind of fire. And their fire is who they really are deep down in their core. Normally I convey fire as a very very positive thing but in this poem the person I'm decribing has a negative fire. I also refer to things from my dreams or nightmares in a lot of my poems as I did in this one.
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