❤️‍🔥

It's called a controlled burn – 
an ecological intervention of sorts 
whereby a forest is intentionally set ablaze 
in order to start anew, 
to stave off suffocation and spur new growth.

It's a fairly apt metaphor for how 
I am looking at life these days; 
maybe not completely "controlled," 
per se, but still a means 
to the same welcomed end.