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The Bonfire Burns

A single key 
turns the lock
of the door 
you’ve been 
pushing against 
for all
the life in you it takes,
the door like Life breaks 
into a million pieces,
and there at your feet 
like irretrievable moments scattered,
you try to avoid the splinters,
but you gather them up instead,
each splinter a word lit, now
the bonfire burns

inside the inferno 
the life renewed, borne again
wakes, it walks on water,

just, 
as it walks through flames,
there the compass 

draws you home, 
like a magnet 
calls the key 


Candide Diderot. ‘24 




key. 
compass. 


Copyright © Candide Diderot

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