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Ashes to ashes...
"How important is anything that could burn to ash in a few minutes" (Barbara Kingsolver, "La Lacuna) Poetry or prose.
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Lincoln

burn

Even steel will burn

twist

Even

Some say fire is a renewal

Cleansing

I say its a symptom of the world

Nothing lasts forever

Though a seed will grow in ash

A hawk will hunt in fire

They have died in fire

In water tanks

Scared

Alone

Or clinging to their children

It razes eveything

Tales have been told in fire

Before a battle

People have huddled from the night

Those have lost everything

A landscape decimated and bare

Fire will create its own weather

Lightning

It all can burn

Farenheit 451

Some people go through fire

And survive

Surviving is what its about

Nazis burned the dead

So many bodies

To be treated like trash

No each one an important soul

Fire will burn everything

Run from fire

While you can

Wrong place wrong time

From ash is life

From fire is life