you peered too long and too closely into other souls while yours retreated with spite your own feelings were discarded and you invested everything into this new charity
but your soul was hiding a tiny spark kind of like how a tiny flare could set a whole forest on fire if it was all dried up and gone like your interest in yourself
slowly, that spark grew and grew and you felt the heat right about where your heart is and that was the realization you needed to track down the remains of yourself
you searched and searched the inferno in your chest acting as a compass and leading you to the longest trek you will ever go on, ever self discovery -kaitlyn fisher
originally wrote this for a poetry project about self discovery. feel free to use, with credit.