The Fire Inside 🔥
Sometimes the strongest emotions are the ones we struggle hardest to understand.
The Fire Inside is about anger — but also about what we choose to do with it.
Anger can consume us if we let it. But sometimes, when we stop fighting it and start listening to what sits underneath it, it can teach us something about ourselves.
This poem came from that place — the moment I realised I didn’t want the fire inside me to control who I became.
THE FIRE INSIDE
Hate rages within
An insatiable fire
Igniting
Burning
Desperate to get out
To engulf
To consume
But that’s not who I am
That’s not who I want to be
Never again
And so I look inwards
No longer outwards
And become the fire
— J. S. Summers