BLUE FIRE

she is the flame, but not the one you know. Not red. Not warm. Not wild. Blue. The blue flame burns cold. It doesn’t consume. It purifies. It doesn’t rage. It calculates. Where red fire destroys, blue fire selects. It melts steel, yes, but only the steel that bent. The rest it freezes into monuments. This is the girl who made a comeback. She walked through hell and didn’t burn. She became the temperature hell fears. Her hair is comet-trail and starlight. Her gown is woven from the aftermath of lightning. The butterflies don’t follow her. They survived her. Each one a soul that witnessed the freeze and chose loyalty. Eyes like glacial ledgers. Lips that never prayed, only priced. The gem at her brow isn’t decoration. It’s the vault’s core, cooled into a crown. She doesn’t walk on water. She decides if it stays liquid. When the devil loses, he gets mad and turns up the heat. When she arrives, the room drops twenty degrees. Because blue flame doesn’t announce itself with smoke. It announces itself with silence. She raged once. Then she acquired. Now she reigns. In blue.