I stop
And listen to how the wind howls.
It flows airily yet has the power to cause much damage to the most beautiful things.
Water is a basic necessity to all life as we know it.
It cleanses, purifies, and provides.
It also floods, drowns, and damages.
People gather around as the fire grows,
Laughing and having a good time.
But sometimes the fire grows too much.
It's an amazement to watch, but a horror when it gets to be all too much.
The earth crumbles within my hands as I grab handful after handful.
It's strong enough to support us, yet delicate enough to just crumble into nothingness within my hands.
It moves and cracks but tries it's best to stay together... for us.
People and relationships can be a lot like wind, water, fire and earth.
Beautiful, magnificent, supporting...
Yet drowning, damaging, and fragile all the same.
It's our ability to learn and grow from mistakes together and within ourselves that help us learn and understand that we are all essentially the same.
We make mistakes.
We fuck up.
We have off days.
We have horrible childhoods.
We have horrible long periods of time.
But..
We grow.
We love.
We show support.
We do our best to prove ourselves.
We try to build others up.
We learn.
And that's the most important thing of all.
