Children In The Form Of Fire

Hareysha Sankar 2005 (Seremban)



Children are like fire.
 When they are young you,
 think you can control them;
 mold them into anything you want.

 But as they grow bigger,
 you begin to loose control.
 Sometimes they can hurt you.
  They aspire to take on the world.
Set the world up in flames;

 But alas,
 your words can act as an extinguisher;
You can kill their dreams,
as well as the child with it.
 Then they turn blue.

They burn with anger,
 pain,
 sadness,
 resentment.
Maybe even depression.

 And sometimes,
 they extinguish themselves
from the earth permanently.
those who do hold on
Just long enough to grab a piece of wood,
 paper,
anything they can set a flame to.
And they will burn again;
 Maybe even brighter than before.
 Destroying everything
 that gets in their way.

As they grow old,
 They begin to fade away;
As time waits for no one.
With one more small gust of smoke,
They fade into the air;
becoming nothing more
 than a memory to those who had witnessed them;
 Leaving their mark behind them
as proof of their existence.

Fire is like children,
beautiful;
Until you lose control,
Then it will burn you to the ground.

About this poem

I wrote this peom because i never understood why parents think that if they are strict with their kids, they would be more dicipline. I think its the opposite. I think that the longer you control them, the bigger the explosion.

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Written on August 07, 2022

Submitted by Hareyshasankar on August 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCX ADBXX XAXXB AXXXE XXXXXABXFXG XGEXXFCCX EXDX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,117
Words 241
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 5, 11, 9, 4

Hareysha Sankar

Im 17 years old, I have 3 older siblings. I live in kuala lumpur, malaysia. I love to write stories and poems in my free time. more…

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