Monday, 15 August 2016

burn

under a woodsy lighthouse shine
in the darkest crypt of our whitest time
lay a thousand phoenix who forgot to rise
in a moment of reckoning their eyes open wide

wings that lay in ashen heap
in a burst of flames did their feathers beat

scarring the earth in flight to break free 
burning oceans barren, killing a scared tree

they lit the sky a midnight pyre
moon was shredded to bits of sapphire

their every flutter, a volcanic kiss
the world was melting, spluttering hiss

like desperate infatuation of an obstinate sun
the phoenix raged, a will to burn

a dying wasteland of blazes whirred
such havoc shaped by vengeful birds
is but a minor chaos, cold and unheard
compared to furious calamity of yer words




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