Fire Doesn’t Lie

Born from friction

or sun or lightning kindled,

it is warmth in winter,

light in the darkness.

It is the great destroyer too,

burning the old

to make way for the new.

Given oxygen, given fuel,

it burns as it will,

always burns true.

Seek that flame.

It lives inside of you.

Image courtesy of Sarojani Rohan, “Year of the Fire Horse”

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Mary Camille Thomas

Mary Camille Thomas is a native of Santa Cruz who is grateful to make her home on the California coast once more after living internationally and on the road. She studied comparative literature at UC Davis and received a master’s degree in library science from UCLA, which gave her a way to earn a living while making a life among books. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the Monk in the World Guest Post Series, Moving Force Journal, Presence, Porter Gulch Review, Second Wind, Sisters Singing, and The New Story, and she has completed a novel called What Lies Buried about a man reckoning with his family’s Nazi past.

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