Lesson Learned

I stare at the beauty of an open fire

and you tell me not to touch it

Because you've been burned by the flames before,

but I haven't 

You can tell me 110 times not to touch the fire.

You can even show me the scars

from the burns you've received.

But until I feel the burn on my own skin,

until I am tortured by the heat 

and my own skin is scarred,

I will never stop wondering

what its like to be kissed by the flames