Warmth is Not Measured in Brilliance or Breadth
Man was sitting with his Fire, having grown her from nothing, to roaring flame. Over time Man had lost himself, where he was & any sense of time, staring into the embers, twigs, branches, logs, and licks of light that made Fire what she now was. This sparked a private conversation between the mass of Stars overhead the Man, and his Fire. They asked Fire with lament in their voices, “Why does he give you so much of his attention, as soon as you appear? We forever blaze in the sky, are awe inspiring, enormous, terrifying, bright and brilliant. How could you possibly compare to us!?”
“I cannot argue with your claims, for they are all true, but you all have miscalculated Man’s nature.” “Are you saying that you know something we don’t?”
“I’m simply saying that Man is not rational. He prefers the proximity of my warmth over your distant scorch that leaves him cold in the night. He prefers the full play of my flames over your occasional brightness that peeks through clouds. He feels pride in what he creates every night with me, whereas your magnificent creation is incomprehensible to him, and added doubt only finds his mind uneasy.”
“So just because we find ourselves far away from Man, we have now become forgotten?”
“You’re all farther away than anything he can compare to in time & space, in his quick and hectic life. Having his streets flooded with light over the past century hasn’t helped him either, he has almost erased you from his living memory due to this.” “Aren’t you next on the chopping block, to be excised from his consciousness?” “In this primitive form, perhaps, but he still has many uses for me that he hasn’t found a way to escape from just yet. I survive because my warmth is not measured in brilliance or breadth, but in intimacy and depth.”
“Do not fret, or be too hard on yourself Stars. Man is fickle, he comes from a species with amnesia. It is not fully his fault that he cannot remember as much as us ancient spirits, that he fails to honour that which is most high at times.”
Immediate warmth & kindness can overcome
distant beauty & brightness.
