You Are Fire in Winter

dedicated to my sisters who are so fierce and brave

To the one who is hurting, the one in pain and feeling so much right now. I want to let you know that you’re beautiful like a fire pit on a snowy night. It might be cold around you, but that doesn’t dim your fierce light. You reach out into the darkness like a wild flame that whips around and crackles. Your heat teases the cold night with smoke and a quiet whisper that melts each snowflake with its breath.

You don’t grow cold with each passing hour as the night presses on, instead you feed the hunger within that keeps your passion burning. A passion that is your life, your purpose and your creativity. It’s the static electricity every time you jump from the ground into the endless sky. Your hair is wild in anticipation for new strength and energy. Feed that fire within that makes you name the moon and notice shooting stars. Find your countenance as you relate to the depth of the sea, complicated and mystifying. 

You might feel like your depth is a void, but it’s filled with more treasure than you think. You’re truly magical and entrancing. You’re full of wonder, enchantment from a beast within. You’re still dancing and tossing your flame like a dazzling ring of fire that people delight in. Hold onto that fire in your eyes that dances and twirls.

You’re incredible and worth dreaming for. You’re the mystery of midnight and the answer for life. Your name can be found in the rhythm of earth’s drumming heart. With each step you take, you answer a natural calling to keep going, keep seeing beyond and venturing forth. Take your time to thread through memories and then place them in the heat of your heart to melt, mold and infuse you with greater strength and wisdom.

You will be able to love again, trust again and extend your light once more. In the meantime, let your fire kindle and learn itself again. Let it speak a new language of pain and healing and life, of going on and moving forward. Let yourself be real and admit where the burn has singed and created some edges. Walk along those newfound edges and fan the flame for new dreams and things worth fighting for. You’re a fighter and a lover.

You’re creativity at its finest. You’re a flame in the night and a light in the day. You know both sun and moon. You write the song where they come together and tell you stories about how the sea met the sky one time and struck a lightning bolt into a volcano that caused an entire city to fall into the ocean all for love and an intimate greeting.

You’re worth noticing and pausing for. You’re worth being called beautiful and fighting for. You’re worth all the natural wonder in this world and more.