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Fire

December 9, 2022
By jadeo1 BRONZE, Vancouver, Washington
jadeo1 BRONZE, Vancouver, Washington
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Fire.

The flames awaken 

As match strikes tinder.

The heat. 

The scent.

Maybe the fire started because someone lit it. 

Maybe it struck because of the climate.

Maybe we struck it, struck it with our thoughts. 

Fire that burns inside us.

The fire grows because of others,

They stoke the flames. 

Heightening in response, the heat intensifies, acrid burning emanates, ash forms.

Burnt out. 

Burnt out of all the thoughts you obtain in your head.

The thoughts - that slowly levitate. Kindling the fire 

Slowly emerging.

Expanding beyond its borders.

Perhaps emerging as a wildfire.

One that uncontrollably surges in size.

Burning down buildings.

Forests. 

Making people want to find an escape plan..

But before they can.

They're gone. 

Too long of a time.

Too much heat.

An uncontrollable kind of heat.

One with rage and some hate.

The fire. starting, - huge amounts of flames

Needing someone to throw out water for you.

 To save you from the heat, from all of the flames, all the ash and all of the fear that came along with it.

I need water to put it out.

Get water. 

We all remember when life was so easy, as a child. 

Growing up in happiness. Having friends, having fun playing outside.

But now growing in anger, isolation from friends and family, not wanting to go outside -because of not wanting people to see you.

But now as we´re older,

We change and grow, with the amount of choices we make, the regrets we have wounded up with, the relationships that have failed us; but now we just have us.

We have ourselves.

It feels lonely, because all we do is push people away. 

But the fire never goes away, it's still existing in our mind.

All those childhood memories fade away, only the big ones stay but those alway seem to make us sad; thinking about how much we´ve grown up, and how much we´ve changed 

physically, mentally, emotionally. 

Getting older just makes it harder, the fire that inside of you, grows within you for years and years until you collapse. 

  Don't let the fire burn you before your time.


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