Burn Brighter
Day to day we’re always told that we need to be
the utmost best we can be; to shine brighter than
the last and burn with more intensity. Flames
blazing and creeping up the walls. Any higher
and we’ll all collapse, but that’s what they want,
right? They want us to push ourselves and be the
brightest in the bunch but when the flames consume
us, then it’s our own fault if we crumble to the ground
because they’re obsessed with the sight of an open
flame and the vulnerability it claims. It can burn, it
can melt away, it can be dowsed with water. They
lust at the thought of being the extinguisher to the
flame. But fire fights back. It may seem easy to
alleviate its flame but fire beckons with its beauty
only to burn…
(E.A.)