Lively Fires

Life burns vigorously predatively until retiring, slowing down to glowering embers reflecting on all consumed since birth. Flaming gratitude feels not yet fulfilled, heatedly completed, but hanging on for what calming cooling purpose? Embalming remnants of fueled meaning with smug self-satisfaction and feckless remorse. Family relationships burn out turn in toward former flames risen higher fueled deeper in memory than capacity for renewed heat images now questionable in life's resilient potential. Fires nurture risk and opportunity, but old fires grow risk of cold and acrid ashes, fading active hope for new winds smoking in renewed fuel opportunities. This strong-fired life of dried out climate difference, strong inflaming protest, oft questioned dignity, smolders in wrinkling shrinking maturity over ripe with risk of fading opportunity to yet see Earth with new peaceful eyes, with impassioned fires of understanding what this human conflagration was all about. Smoldering embers dimly hope for new winds, new unbillowing eyes to recall that initial committed moment of inspiration, of spark and wind and fueled experience inviting fires from first spark til last light spent. Fire, like life, like love, builds its own waiting sanctuary.