Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

Alexandra Bracken
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The fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder. This is a beautiful piece of poetry that speaks of a deep love that can burn bright and be quenched by nothing but time itself. The poet speaks of a house where passion burns out over time.

A house that may burn down but will always be built again from the ashes of its past. It is a house where fire is born from the soul of the woman who “plays herself to ash and embers”. In other words, she plays music so well that she cannot help but play herself out through her instrument of choice once the performance is over.

Source: Passenger

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