I am the wind. Effervescent mists,
that crawl and creep.
Awaiting summer’s heat.
Calm at night.
Still at daylight.
I am the earth. Older than humanity,
and his frivolous extants.
Grounded and steadfast.
Birthing molten pain at fall.
Fiery and nurturing.
I am the water. Fluid and graceful.
My cup runneth over with a quenching bounty.
Taking all imaginable forms,
yet amorphous at heart.
Instilling spring with its myriad shades.
I am the fire. Brazen and unbounded.
Devouring the plains with an avarice unseen.
Burning all that touch my embers,
scorching across a frigid winter night.
Playful and vengeful.
I am elemental and I am man.
I am he, who cannot be tamed, will not be broken.
I am parts of a whole, but never its part.
By turning of tides, and the beating heart.
Beyond the details, and across time.
I am everything, and none at all.
Image from here.
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while i was reading this, i suddenly remembered this game i used to play when i was alone at home. i'd turn on the stove, crank up the gas then turn it down before it gets too high. i'd do it slowly sometimes but most days, i'd speed through it.
i love how there are little biblical bits in this post. *facebook like*
@Nyl I never imagined you to be the arsonistic type. But then again, we all have this latent craving to play with fire. The chance to tame and control its uncompromising fiery.
Biblical? In what sense? Would you be kind enough to point out certain passages? I wrote this at a cafe while waiting for a friend, so the mishmash of words were, at the very least, spontaneous.
i love how u just romanticized fire. haha
wait.. lemme check again.
i think phrases like "My cup runneth over" and "I am everything, and none at all." gave me that impression. idk honestly, i'm a little rusty. haha
@Nyl Haha. I think I tend to romanticize a lot of things. Oh, come to think of it, those lines do have some biblical tone to it. I thought you commented on the wrong entry. The previous entry, aegri somnia, had actual biblical terms. Hehe.
oh yeah! i didn;t see it there before but now i do.
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