Wednesday, October 16, 2024

the fire within Aug. 21, 2012

the only safe place is home

 and maybe not even there

 in these days when even to

breathe is a risk

 we walk a tightrope from

 one elevated destination to another

r aware that any misstep brings us down

It is more than just the heat or of summer

 we must endure

 we much endure the more savage heat

that  boils inside us

 from the inside out

 no lotion makes us immune

no threat of extinction

can discourage us

the fire is just too scolding

to be dampened down

 by words of warning

and what we achieve must be done

 at the inside first

 stamping out the sparks

 that inspire the feelings

 that scorches us so yet what do we use to stamp out these fires when everything we have us as in exhaustible pile of pyrogenics

 we set off with every thought

 even at a distance

even when we have no contact

 with that external match

 that started it all


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