NaPoWriMo #30 - Free Day and Farewell

Burning

Every second of every day

is consumed by burning.

It's what people do,

something we all have in common.

We burn with passion,

anger, desire, regret.

Even our tears cannot

extinguish our burning.

We burn brightly

because we are temporary.

We burn everything we have

from the inside out,

then implode,

like a human super nova.

And then the burning is gone

leaving behind a cold husk

that's nothing like what we were

when we were still burning.

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Notes: So, I couldn't think of any prompts that I had failed to write to that I wanted to write, so I decided to revisit the elemental prompt and take on a new element. I did water the first time, so I decided to tackle fire this time around.

NaPoWriMo #17.2 - Something elemental

Necessary

She had always wished

to be as necessary to him as water,

to be something he couldn't live without.

She knew it was selfish,

that it was impossible,

that it was foolish, even.

But that didn't stop

the stab of envy in her breast

every time she watched him

raise his glass to his lips

and sip, eyes closed in contentment.

NaPoWriMo #17.1 - Something elemental

The Power of Water

She had always been conscious

of the fact that her body was 70 percent water

and proud of it, too.

She had seen often enough

how water could carve its way through rock

with only persistence and time for tools.

It was gentle, yet powerful.

Soothing, yet destructive.

It was such a beautiful contradiction,

one she strove to emulate.