Challenge
You're a Pompeiian poet. Volcanic ash is raining down. You write one last poem. What is it?
Desolation
All I see is embers
The beast aglow
Knowing this is the last moment
Billowing clouds of ash dominate the sky
And all I can hear are the screams of my people
All I see is white
Whiteness slowing suffocating my brothers
Come the end of the day
When the sky has fallen
Will you remember me?
All I see is red
Waters flowing crimson of my sisters
Come the end of the day
When all is in ruins
Who will watch over those who are lost in the flurry?
All I see is black
Keep watch over our souls
For the Mountain burns with its wrath
Covering Pompeii for the last time
Will you remember us?
All I see—
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