FINDING A WAY

Fire becomes a new reality: ordinary, dear, familiar and comfortable. Scraps of the old me are burning, but the memories don't. They will scar me forever to remind me of the moment it all started. The stars will guide me home where the flowers bloom and the eternal sun shines. Look at the sky at night - you see the same stars, the same path. Close your eyes and you will see the stars a million times brighter.

"Everything is burning, my soul, body, outside, inside, heart, flesh. Do you understand? Do you really understand?"

Maria Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, 1952