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categories = ["fiction", "poetic"]
date = "2018-09-27T00:00:00+01:00"
title = "A spark"

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A spark

*a million volts*

*for a split second*

If the spark lands just right

*it kindles a tiny flame*

Hot but flickering

Should you gentle cradle this flame

*unafraid of being burned*

It will resist when it would be doused

If you feed this flame

*it will grow explosively into a fire*

A conflagration that consumes and ignites

Should you survive the fire as it dies

*you will be left with smouldering embers*

Quieter and less ostentatious than the heartbeat spark, the jittering flame, the rumbling fire

Discreetly white hot

*a star core pouring lightness into the world*