by Jessica Lynn Lovelace

Created on: March 18, 2010

Fire’s End


Wisps of lives
long turned to worms
swarm around the fire
that burns away time.
The flames’ lizard tongue
lashes out
tasting, testing, deciding,
“I give nothing tonight.”

Dead moans ripple
up the frozen air
turning leaves into
the nightmares
that deny destinies.
And acid leaks down faces,
as the fire hisses,
“Not worthy.  Not worthy.”

Shadows tighten cannibal fingers
around each dead throat.
The fire bursts white,
then dies.
Fire ash explodes,
transforming dead limbs with an
endless flame of punishment.
“Power, power, power…”

Stone mouths scream,
frozen eyes cry,
dead brain’s trapped  inside
forsaken memories and
wrong deeds,
wrapped in their own bubbling greed.
“Power, you Will Not have.”

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