Mar 2017
Fire
So many people say lighting fires makes them calm or feel better even.
Why?
Because fire is destructive and in those moments we have created this mass of heat and ash that could take down our neighborhoods if we tipped over the pit... yet we have taken control of it. This monstrous snake that eats away at all in its path is under our thumbs. We decided how large it grows. We tell it when to stop. I think people love playing with fire so much because we cannot control our own fires in our lives. The things that eat away at us day after day are escaping from our grasp. They become the orange and red seas that flood our hearts and spill out onto our wrists.
Harmless campfires satisfy our thirst to overcome the hellish pits of our minds.
- Yacinia Agosto
- 10/13/16
So many people say lighting fires makes them calm or feel better even.
Why?
Because fire is destructive and in those moments we have created this mass of heat and ash that could take down our neighborhoods if we tipped over the pit... yet we have taken control of it. This monstrous snake that eats away at all in its path is under our thumbs. We decided how large it grows. We tell it when to stop. I think people love playing with fire so much because we cannot control our own fires in our lives. The things that eat away at us day after day are escaping from our grasp. They become the orange and red seas that flood our hearts and spill out onto our wrists.
Harmless campfires satisfy our thirst to overcome the hellish pits of our minds.
- Yacinia Agosto
- 10/13/16
I asked my friend if I could post this poem she'd written to this site because I liked it so much.
