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Rise from the Ashes
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Personal (Melancholy) [I am burned out.]
My fire has been smothered
under the weight of worry,
by the breeze of heartbreak.
Fanning the flame of my desire
only spurred addictions while
inside I was turned off.
I added fuel to the fire
when it should have been
extinguished.
[I was about to go up in smoke.]
Rather than incinerating insecurity
through romance’s tiny spark,
my behavior burned me alive.
My flesh was left charred,
my heart blackened throughout.
[I became dust.]
When I had crashed and burned,
my hero brought me out
from the pile of cinders.
He wiped away the soot
and the tears from my eyes.
[He said I was reborn.]
What emerged from the ashes
was something more impressive
than what was reduced to coal...
an inferno of reverent passion,
the ignition of blazing love,
a fire that will never go out.
Rewrite 2012
[I am burned out.]
My fire has been smothered
under the weight of worry,
by the breeze of heartbreak.
Fanning the flame of my desire
only spurred addictions while
inside I was turned off.
I added fuel to the fire
when it should have been
extinguished.
[I was about to go up in smoke.]
Rather than incinerating insecurity
through romance’s tiny spark,
my behavior burned me alive.
My flesh was left charred,
my heart blackened throughout.
[I became dust.]
When I had crashed and burned,
my hero brought me out
from the pile of cinders.
He wiped away the soot
and the tears from my eyes.
[He said I was reborn.]
What emerged from the ashes
was something more refined
than what was reduced to coal...
an inferno of reverent passion,
the ignition of blazing love,
a fire that will never go out.
