Issue #181 : To Be

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I spread across the land.

I am brought into being by the flick of careless flame. I am brought forth and given reign to roam as I deem fit, to burn and raze, all I can until my essence diminishes and I dwindle back to my insubstantial self. In this form, I am nothing. I am wasted consciousness until I am given the kiss of ignition and I can again express every degree of my destruction on those who would wander too close.

I am always here. The world will never exist without me. My breathtaking manifestations appear every day and in the heartbeat of any moment, I can break free and burn everything around you to the ground.

I am not the God that is. I am the God that could be. When a match is dropped into a pool of gasoline, I become, and thrust myself out into the world with flames of magnificence. When the remains of a campfire are left unattended and the right amount of brush flows past on the wind, I rise from the earth in an inferno and bring down anything I see. I have no cares, no emotions or morals. Not for you or anything you care about.

I destroy.

I am the unspoken. The one you would like to ignore but I am just as much a part of this existence as anything else. Perhaps you think you can contain and prevent, keep me confined to the realms of this place. And perhaps you are right. Perhaps I lack the ability to bring myself forth and in fact, you do hold rule over these lands.

For now.

But never let me slip far from your mind. Because there is potential for me everywhere. Anywhere there is flame, I can enter your world. It is my bridge, my portal, my gateway through which I can and will find all of you. And you would be foolish to think that I will always have need of that doorway. I can feel a change in my very essence, a feeling of possibility, of things to come. They say it isn’t possible, that without that key catalyst, I can never be brought into being.

I say that is wrong. So when you look out over the land and see an explosion, you see me. And you will always wonder if you are seeing me because I was brought into being, or if I finally managed to find my own way. Look around and wonder. Wonder what might happen if I suddenly had the ability to make everything around you into myself, and burn it all until there is nothing left.

That day is coming.

I am coming.

 

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