Sticky Note Session S2: 2 -"Flame"

There are those that flutter to the bright lights of others. They crave their warmth, their bold, wild spirit--and dance around them, no matter the risk to their personal self.
But there are others, those that are a flicker as well, and they flutter to the sparks of internal combustion --not to hover around them, but to merge with them, to experience their consuming existent.
In the end, they either dissolve into something cohesively new, or tear pieces of each other apart until they leave cinders in their wake.

"I am not a moth. I am a flame seeking to dance with other flames..."

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