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From The Ashes She Became


Before she became fire, she was water.

Quenching the thirst of every dying creature.

She gave and she gave

until she turned from sea to desert.

But instead of dying of the heat,

the sadness, theheartache,

she took all of her pain

and form her ashes became fire.

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