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🔥The Last Glow 🔥

🔥Reflections on Endings and New Beginnings🔥

By Tim CarmichaelPublished 10 months ago • 1 min read

In the hush of night, where embers disappear

like fading stars, I sit and watch the fire,

its dance slow, and intimate,

the last gasp of warmth curling upwards,

each gleam a breath of everything once alive.

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The crackle speaks in low tones,

tales of days spent in laughter,

of shadows that danced

the grill of memories sizzling against the sky,

like a heart beating against the burden of night.

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What remains now is a tapestry of ash,

a delicate lacework of existence,

fragile, refusing to be forgotten,

as I trace the outline of what was

the light, the heat, the inferno that consumed.

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But endings are not merely extinguished flames.

They breathe new life into the cool air,

carving paths for the dawn to unfold,

a promise wrapped in smoke,

a future held in a sigh.

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I cradle the warmth of the last glow,

a soft farewell wrapped in the evening’s embrace,

and let the memories move around my fingers,

for in every ending, there lies a beginning,

a spark waiting to ignite anew.

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So as I watch the fire’s farewell,

I gather the remnants of a day gone by

not lost, but transformed,

into the promise of stars above

and the silent whisper of what comes next.

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About the Creator

Tim Carmichael

Let your becoming be louder than your fear, and your smallest steps become the road you once thought impossible to walk. An Appalachian poet and cookbook author my book Beautiful and Brutal Things is on Amazon, Link 👇

https://a.co/d/537XqhW

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    Written by Tim Carmichael