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    The poem advocates for letting a passionate fire burn rather than immediately fighting it, as fire can help build and bring change more than it destroys. While a fire may start by accident, it represents a transformation from darkness to light and can be used purposefully to enact change in the world. The poem argues that fires should be allowed to burn so their root and purpose can be understood, and only then will understanding lead to the fire disappearing on its own.

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    The poem advocates for letting a passionate fire burn rather than immediately fighting it, as fire can help build and bring change more than it destroys. While a fire may start by accident, it represents a transformation from darkness to light and can be used purposefully to enact change in the world. The poem argues that fires should be allowed to burn so their root and purpose can be understood, and only then will understanding lead to the fire disappearing on its own.

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    Let It Burn

    Julian Ibarra

    There’s a time to let the firemen


    Forego fighting
    To let the fire, the passionate fire
    Engulf and consume.

    For what if the fire


    Despite its broiling heat
    Helps more than hurts?
    Builds more than destroys?

    The fire is at its core a change


    From fuel to flame
    From dark to light
    From overlooked to can’t be denied.

    It could be started by a mistake


    Carelessness leads to nature’s fury
    Or it could be started on purpose
    Heaped and fed until it’s seen for miles.

    Put it out, put it out​ some say


    But they don’t understand
    They never understand
    An angry fire is the way to change the world

    So burn, burn, baby let it burn


    Let’s find its root and find its desire
    Only when we understand will it disappear
    Leaving but ashes as proof it once was.

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