Beautiful, Brilliant Minds

Beautiful, brilliant minds are fire.
Sometimes a candle, others an inferno.
Beautiful, brilliant minds are fire,
Strong and devastating and fierce.
But beautiful, brilliant minds are
As fragile, as easily beaten down as fire.
A forest fire may rage for days, weeks, months,
But with enough suppressants,
It is quelled.
And a candle is extinguished with
But a simple, solitary exhale.
Beautiful, brilliant minds are fire,
But fire is not invulnerable.

I am not made of impenetrable diamond.
A single word can snuff me out,
Even when I’m razing the world to the ground.