FIRE

                                    

Today I saw my mother cry. As tears rolled down her cheek and as she wept with so much pain inside her, I couldn't even look at her without wailing. But I neither blinked nor turned away, not even once. 

My heart shattered into a million pieces and it felt like it would never mend back again. As she sobbed with pain in her eyes a burning fire burned in me. I could feel it.

It sometimes burnt up till my throat which almost choked me.

The throbbing realization hit me that no one, not even a single soul mattered to me more than her.

Suddenly all made sense now, as if by magic. At this point, in my mind, I had the ability to vividly prioritize. It was as though someone tried to mumble something to me, it came from far, FAR back of my head, yet it felt rather close to me. 

The voice tried to tell me something. Something powerful and insightful. It made me realize that all the people, whom I now shower with unconditional love and affection and refer to as constants aren't going to matter to me, in time.

Time heals they say, time only makes you forget the painful moments by making them appear distant. It is nothing but an illusion. 

Time doesn't heal, it simply leaves the wound unacknowledged in the hopes that you'll forget its very existence of it.

This burning fire inside my throat consumed me wholly, devouring me from inside. It choked me so tight, I couldn't gasp for any more air. All I wanted to do at that moment was to plunge myself in bitterly cold water and remain in there until the fire hushed away. 

And suddenly when I couldn't hold it back anymore, a thought struck my head so sharp, almost agonizing. It made me believe that in a world full of people who are trying to repress their burning fire

BE A DRAGON.