It is the job
of the wildfire
to crave ignition,
to seek more fuel,
to turn at the whim
of the wind.
The wildfire’s job
is to burn
whatever it meets,
to incite it to flame,
to not care what it chars
how it ashes.
I want to not see it
as it leaps and claims,
want to not smell it
as it fills my lungs,
becomes me,
want to not notice
the part of me
ready to burn.
Powerful and truthful <3
thank you, friend
thank you friend … it was based on a real fire one mile from our house yesterday–wildfire started by an unattended campfire. Yikes. yikes. I am so grateful for the firefighters. wow.
about that burning…
to catch fire, to ignite and to begin, to be done with an intensity?
to remove that which is no longer needed?
right? I maybe all of that, maybe also to be done with what is dead and dried in us.