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I am an ember
#WritcoStoryPrompt116
Write a story about an ember and how it connects to your life.

Embers given off by the dying flame, signalling its on its way out. Just a byproduct of a much bigger spectacle of light. But, no one talks about them, as if they aren't important.

I am just like them, signalling a dying flame residing deep within. A burning out fire never meant to last long. Unimportant and unimpressive in size and meaning. To most I am nothing more than the embers...

But we are dangerous. Although the flame dies, we still have the power to burn everything, to start again : try again. A reminder, we serve as, of the once greatness we were apart of. A byproduct of destruction and pain, a danger left unspoken, a danger unrecognized, a danger, to those who hurt us.

I am like an ember. I fall and I die. But I shall rise again in a fiery fit of passion waiting, waiting, waiting to scorch those who hurt me. That day shall come...
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