Questions about fire

What is fire to you and

what is its purpose?

What is your flame and

where does it start and end?

Does it dance in the wind or

quietly simmer,

lighting up the corners of our rooms?

Can you stare into it and

see through its blue to glimpse yourself?

Are you afraid, or will you capture it,

hold it in your hand?

And is harnessing it about power?

Or about comfort, community, understanding?

After all, isn’t fire what lights up our skies?

And aren’t we stardust, after all, in the end?