Firefly Second

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In this spinning, tumbling universe,

I know my time is nothing more

than a firefly’s trembling flicker-

a brief shimmer before the dark folds in.

Yet here I am, still reaching,

still burning with impossible wanting.


Though I’ve seen how everything overturns,

how dreams flare and fall apart,

something in me keeps leaping

like a moth that cannot forget the flame.

Maybe my heart was born with this ache-

this stubborn hunger for light,

even when shadows wait behind it.


Still I dance my small dance of hope

in the middle of all this cosmic chaos.

I chase the fleeting sparks that appear,

knowing well they may scorch,

yet yearning for them with all I am.


Perhaps this risking is my truth-

fragile, foolish, fierce.

For in these blinking moments of existence,

I feel life whisper its only command:

to desire, to reach, to love-

for what else remains for a soul like mine

caught between darkness

and the fire I cannot resist?


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