Life on Fire

Jessie-Lee Reese
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

We all begin as a flicker;

a spark of opportunity.

The scorched kindling of our potential sends us up

in a blaze

combusting into scales of rose and feathers of gold;

the beauty and magic of our electric souls

manifesting from within.

From the earth

we rise on fire

to dance amongst the clouds

with the sun and the moon

in the light of our own incandescence.

But one day our dance will dwindle

and ease back to the ground

where we lay as low burning embers

that eventually

smolder

out.

It is then we must choose

to be built

or destroyed

by the ashes.

Should we choose to rise

perhaps death is not our only guarantee

but forever is;

an awakened opportunity.

Jessie-Lee Reese

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Teacher, writer, musician, yogi.