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Your Fire

September 5, 2009
By 21stars GOLD, Longmont, Colorado
21stars GOLD, Longmont, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -Hellen Keller


Dive into the pain
Just avoid sinful relief at all costs
Live my nightmares everyday
Just because my heart is beating
Doesn't mean I live at all
Just because I smile at you
Doesn't mean I'm not terrified
The fire in your eyes
Taunts me as it offers me
False promises, serenity
It promises me peace and healing
But I continue to drown in my fear
My fear of you lies is what kills me
All the things you offer that you cannot give
Your fire cannot make me live


The author's comments:
I refer to fire a lot in my writing. To me everyone has their own kind of fire. And their fire is who they really are deep down in their core. Normally I convey fire as a very very positive thing but in this poem the person I'm decribing has a negative fire. I also refer to things from my dreams or nightmares in a lot of my poems as I did in this one.

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