There will always be fires
And
There will be stones
Consider:
Sometimes it burns only on the surface
heat and hurt
but nothing lasting
foolish almost
to give too much weight to
that pain
so gone
so yesterday
so eons ago
as you build
or
are built
And sometimes it melts down
hard places
into building blocks
into jewelry
into art
or into proof
just a proof
of staying power
of survival
of the beauty of holding fast
“You didn’t break me, fire”
the stone says
the stone stays
The stone stays