Don’t Play with Fire

Shruti Kamath
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read
“lighted bonfire” by Marcus Löfvenberg on Unsplash

Don’t play with fire,

The fire can burn they said,

Don’t thread into the deep waters,

You can drown they said,

Don’t jump from heights,

You can die they said,

Look before you leap they said,

Think before you speak,

I heard them all ,

Each one of them,

And then decided to jump anyways,

This is my life, the way I live it,

Not defined by the general constraints,

For I am the fire and I am the sea,

I am the air and even the breeze,

When I am one amongst them for so long,

There is no me and there is no we,

Just an Us.

Shruti Kamath

If words were indeed a window to our souls, then I say bring it on :) A poetry enthusiast dwelling on meanings deeper than what the eye sees.

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