A Fire Without Light

• Sanaya Khisty, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2007

I was alone when it started

I still feel it now, its cold, it’s daunting

I guess I was wrapped in blankets

So I never saw it coming

Unlike anything I’ve ever felt

Isolation leaves you empty

Especially when you create it yourself

So I question whether I’ve always been empty

And now my safety blankets are gone I feel the cold that much more

I know there’s a fire, I set it alight

I am now lost in the darkness sensing the burning

The flames still high and warm, the light extinguished, the fire not

Heated touch, fierce clasp, roaring silence

Undefined flames won’t wither

So I will be the lost life, in my own darkness

Within this solitary fire, for I am alone again.