Poems of an Introvert

You are Fire, You are Earth

You are fire, flickering, hot and burning. Beautiful to see, with many moods and colors and heights.

You light the way for others, shining bright, yet dangerous if angered, causing billows of smoke and ash to choke the air.

You keep people warm with your embrace.

Always valued.

Sometimes too much to bear.

You are like the Earth, solid and large, as calm as the great pine and redwood, peaceful as the green flower-filled meadows, beautiful as the rock filled canyons.

You can be as cold as the darkest cavern, or the peak of the tallest mountains, but you will always find life and beauty within.

You give beings shelter, and a place to be, where they know they are loved.

When you reach the end of your patience, destruction erupts around; though the severity changes

and I am never quite the same.