Unending Flames

A powerful journey through pain and transformation, where burning through torment becomes a path to strength and renewal. Rising from the ashes, a prisoner dies, and a soldier is born.

I burn for you, I burn for him,
I burn for all in the flames within.
A fire unending, a torment untamed,
Consuming my heart, my desires inflamed.

I burn in torment, I scream in vain,
For the fire consumes both heart and brain.
I yearn for silence, a breath of peace,
But the flames rage on, they never cease.

Yet though I burn, I’ll stand my ground,
For in this fire, my strength is found.
It’s better to burn as a virtuous one,
Than to live as a coward, to fear the sun.

Through flames that tear, I hold my place,
With courage carved upon my face.
For though I burn, I will not fall,
This fire refines me�"through it all.

I burn to mend the broken parts of me,
But sometimes I want to give in, stay broken, you see,
To feel the thrill of being torn apart,
But the sorrow creeps in, and I long for a fresh start.

So I’ll burn and wait for this hell to cease,
And if it doesn’t, at least I’ll find my peace.
For in the end, though the fire may rage,
I’ll rise from the ashes, healed from my cage

A prisoner died, but a soldier is born,
From the pain and the fire, I emerge reborn.
With strength in my heart and courage to show,
The flames that once burned me now help me to grow.

16/12/2024

Author's Note

What do you think the fire symbolizes in this poem? Is it a force of destruction or transformation? How do you relate to the idea of rising from hardship and coming out stronger? Let me know your thoughts.

Reviews

[emipoemi]

I'd say "careful with musicality" but Stanza 5, where the awkwardness in flow predominantly lie, might actually poetically be able to get away with it (except maybe for Line 4, where you could definitely say "crave a fresh start" thereby dropping the unnecessary extra syllable in "long for"). What you don't quite do, however, is elaborate on the "burn for you and him". It feels more rising from the ashes of general hardship and not so much specifically about the pain of a break-up. And saying to burn for someone implies a completely different kind of burning than the burning you go on to brilliantly describe in this poem. Powerful lines in various places and just a killer ending (a prisoner died, but a soldier is born 🤯 – felt that profoundly). Well done!