Fireflies! Fire! Light! Burn! Exist!

I came across this poem in one of Fulghum’s books, I didn’t get the meaning the first time I read it, but it could mean different things to different people, why don’t you deduce what it means also…

I know some people who give off a lot of light. Because they have absorbed a lot of light themselves. They shine. This is not the kind of light you can actually see with your eyes, of course. But there are lots of parts of the spectrum of light we can’t see. We experience the results of its existence. It takes a different kind of looking.

To look this way is to see.

To see is to have vision.

To have vision is to understand.

To understand is to know.

To know is to become.

To become is to live fully.

To live fully is to matter.

And to matter is to become light.

And to become light is to be loved.

And to be loved is to burn.

And to burn is to exist.

Off and On.