Built Upon Old Flames

Like snowflakes, fires, and desires

None are alike

They come and go

Some are shaped like crystal diamonds

Falling from the sky covering our paths

To unknown places covered in white

Some are fireflies on a summer night

Lighting a strand of grass

Hidden in a park at dark night

Some are the birth of a new star

Seen through the heavens of time

From Jesus to ours, the world spins

Some are flames that burn in our hearts

From the time we met our mates

‘Till the day we depart

Some are fires that we sit around

At a campsite

Exchanging stories of forgotten times

Some are forest fires

Burning everything in its path

A message from nature

Nothing will last

Wherever you find your burning flame

Look no further as it is

The hourglass of time

It gets ignited and extinguished

Slowly as if the flame knows

Things change. Things never remain

The winds of flame direct the vision

Sometimes clearly on a mission

The fire always burns

But the fire always leaves behind

A subtle message for another time

Like time in a bottle, the drinks it served

The lives it changed

The language is written in embers, ashes and smoke

Ashes that one day will filter through the soil

To nourish a tree that will grow

A message of hope adrift in a puff of smoke

Never knowing where it might land

Other than darkness as the wind planned

A place to rest and think of life, how grand

Filled with oxygen and friends

That gathered around it

Like a Sunday Mass

The lovers that held hands

The children that starred

At the fire’s flickering light

Of future dreams filled with warmth in the air

So, start your fire of life

Burn it ‘till embers remain

‘Cause your fire will one day be reborn

For new beginnings, built upon old flames.