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Always Burning

April 21, 2013
By bubbie BRONZE, Normal, Illinois
bubbie BRONZE, Normal, Illinois
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I'm not bleeding
but my flesh is
charred

Scorched by the flames
burning
in my core

It was my own head that
ignited
this tempestuous blaze

And it's my own heart that
sustains
the blistering heat

It's a fire within
that just keeps on
growing

This burning desire
engulfs
my entire being

Yet strangely, it just gets
fueled
as water is added

Success is only
achieved
by those who care so much it hurts

I am a swimmer
and my inferno will never be
extinguished.



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bubbie BRONZE said...
on Apr. 24 2013 at 8:55 pm
bubbie BRONZE, Normal, Illinois
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Thanks! Glad you liked it (:

on Apr. 24 2013 at 1:57 pm
SaphiraBrightscales DIAMOND, Islamabad, Other
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Favorite Quote:
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
When i was little/I used to point a chubby finger toward the dark sky/And ask my father/why some stars moved and others didn’t/He would laugh and explain that some were airplanes/I still wish on them today ~ Laugh-It-Out
The feathers of a crow are black/The ink of my pen is blacker/The pain of my heart is blackest~ Mckay
If love produced a blossom/I’d take it in my palm/What a blessing, the bright color!/How soothing, such a balm!/I’d keep a petal for my own/The rest, drop from my hands/For such a flower would multiply/And populate the lands~ thesilentraven
And I began to rival legends/Long entombed before my birth./But for all my much envied fame/The lust for more would not abate./The plaques and prizes with my name/Will, like all things, disintegrate. ~ TheEpic95 now known as Helena_Noel

Wow nice... What  I liked most was the way you contradicted yourself and the stanza form really came on well... My favourite stanza is the one preceding the last. It absolutely rings with truth.