Paean to the Fire Woman

The world may solve its problems,

or not,

but nothing is stronger,

more powerful,

or more beautiful

than a woman

on fire.

It is her internal flame

that  makes everything around her

glow like fireflies.

She could take the setting sun

and lift it back into the sky

the way you pull a cookie

from a jar.

It is her bouncy, buoyant being

that makes the humdrum, workaday world

smile,

perhaps for the first time in

a very long time.

Her message is as clear as the water

and as plain  as the morning.

It is that of unconditional love.

And that is what makes the world beautiful.

The woman on fire could light up a galaxy

with her eternal flame of goodness.

And make men like me into

keepers of their magic.