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The Hero
December 11, 2017
You'll want to be the hero.
I know,
I did too, once.
And I know
that even though it's a fatal risk,
you'll run, headlong,
into that burning home
to try to save her
you will breathe in that smoke,
willingly,
and you will fight those flames
bare-handed
to get to her
But when you do reach her
in the heart of that blazing inferno,
there she will sit,
unphased, unharmed, unburnt
only then,
when your lungs are suffocated
by her ash,
your heart poisoned
by her smoke,
your skin scorched
by her blaze,
only then will you realize
that girl you wanted more than anything
to save from fire
is the same girl
who holds the match
© Elise S., Clarksville, MD
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