Friday, July 18, 2014

Summer IX, Playing With Matches

The house went up like kindling
Years of growing, learning, loving
Gone

I knew every floorboard's creak
The hidden places in the basement
Dark

Now fire truck bright flashing lights 
A flood of city water rains down
Heavy

The fire, along with our belongings
The pictures, clothes, and books
Crushed

Years of memories now reduced
To wet, bruised, ash-covered
Kindling

End.

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