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How it feels to burn

October 30, 2013
By KassieF GOLD, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
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“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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but now it's like bare feet on burning pavement
if your toes touch the floor for one second too long,
they scorch

so you run

but the farther you go, the more your feet burn
each step hurts more
each step forward make you wonder why you ever left
you want to crumble from the pain,
go crawling back to
his voice: is he even calling you back?

the farther you
run, the harder it is to
go
to leave this place and his gaze and all of your memories
from before the fire started

but you have to escape
before the real fire starts

© Katherine A., San Antonio, TX

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