Challenge
Personify Fire
I find myself giving insubstantial things (like the night and darkness) a life of their own as though they were living breathing entities, making them into thinking and planning beings with desires and intentions of their own. So for this challenge, let's bring FIRE to life.
Write a brief description (prose or poetry) describing FIRE that makes the flame behave like it has a desire or a goal that it is actively trying to accomplish. An example might be to describe how a ground fire burning a path towards the forest craves to reach the dry straw and leaves, etc...
The fire can be any fire - a forest fire, a candle flame, a lighter, a bonfire, etc. I imagine they all have different motives for burning :)
Fire’s Vengeance
Gas covered the wood
Its smell filthy in the air
And yet it welcomed Fire.
Strike a match, sulfur's touch,
Floated through the sky.
Flames grew, running
Through predetermined paths
Climbing the wooden trellis
Amidst the clematis screams.
Its violent touch
Melted all in its path.
Plastic
Metal
And
Memories.
Burned away the evil
Hidden in this
Trinket filled home.
Smoke blocked windows
Yet the sights were clearer.
Fire clambered up the stairs
Followed the smell of alcohol
Like
a
Bloodhound.
The drunken shouts
Were masculine
As his victims urged Fire on
Imagining its red tongue
Licking his ankles
Shredding his face.
Suffocating on emptiness
The man met his demise.
House turned to coal with him.
Fire's Embers waited for the words
Before departing.
"Good Job."