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People Like Fire
People are always alchemist
trying to turn themselves into things that they are not
People as a whole
are more powerful together
Their flames together create an inferno
they are painful scorching burning
They change everything they touch in a brilliant blaze
and each individual like flames are beautiful
People are like fire because they are created in a spark of life
They burn through material things and make memories along the way
People like fire are easy to fear
Easy to make quick dangerous judgements about
People like fire are a collection or reactions
Always exploding with emotions
Always trying to acknowledge the cackling flames within themselves
Their flames and feelings always forked in different directions
People like fire are complex with innumerable sides and shades
But they are whole
People like fire are easy to kill individually
One blow and the wick is goes cold
People like fire are passionate
They burn in every color and emotion
They burn for every reason there is and every new one they create
People like fire are greedy
They always want more to burn
People like fire are dangerous
They burn everything but think they are beautiful while doing it
Change never seems necessary
But it continues to be one of the only ways they know how to live
The feed on life
The only fuel they have
The only way to keep from dying out is to burn everything along with them
People like fire long to be with the sun
but don't know how to burn brightly enough
They cannot give up their dreams of burning where there is no air
People like fire cannot burn forever
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