I Choose Fire Poem by Leria Hawkins

If you forget the road once traveled
And turn from your desires
I shan’t travel with you dear
For my heart still burns with fire

And if you wipe the memories clean
And forsake the whispering wind
The journey you must go alone
For I won’t hold your hand

If you give your heart to sorrow
Refusing to see the light
In silence you shall stumble on
As I’ll renounce the fight

And if you walk the path alone
Rejecting my warm embrace
Then you have surely made your mind
And I’ll give up the chase

If you stand out in the cold
Offering naught but ice and snow
Worry not that I will freeze
For I have let you go

I will never beg you dear
Nor plead for your desires
Though you may choose to go alone
I, my dear…choose fire