It's a peculiar thing...
Fire

It can represent many of heart's emotions
Rage, passion, survival, heat
Embers turned to flame
with just one ignited match

Fire can also be completely diminished
Embers grow cold
Or the rain comes
In an attempt to squelch
The last flames of a fire burning lowly

Some fires are dangerous
Spreading uncontrollably
like a wildfire amongst innocent trees
merely bystanders in an unlucky trick of fate

Some trees are barely ten feet
when they're forcibly engulfed
In a ring of fire.

Such a shame is the day
When you realize that fire
has burned you forever

You may not have died,
but you always live with those scars.