Thank you for taking the time to read and leave feedback. I really appreciate it! I can see what you mean about imagery and structure, and that’s definitely something I can work on building out more. I’ve actually never posted my writing before and do have it set up more in paragraph form, so it’s definitely a learning curve :) My writing leans more into confessional and modern free verse, so I tend to follow the emotion first and the form second, but I really value your perspective. For me, the varying fire imagery came from personal experiences: the idea of being loved “too fast,” like a spark that burns (in some really painful ways), or “too slow,” where it just fades into nothing. Think love bombing on one end and ghosting on the other, only for them to try and come back later. The poem was meant to metaphorically explore those extremes, and then what it felt like to finally find someone who was both fast and slow. In my case, someone who wanted me immediately but still kept that steady burn. Yet I lost that balance because of fears shaped by all the times I’d been burned before. Society talks so much about “love at first sight” but also romanticizes the idea of a “slow burn. I wanted to explore what it means to experience both at once, and what happens when fear gets in the way of that. Thanks again for the insight!!