The Flame

Imagine sitting in front of a cozy hearth, emitting a heat that warms your heart and soul. It is so soothing. A gathering place of friends and family. The mantle, a place of honor for pictures and trophies alike. It can offer a quiet, romantic getaway, a couple in love, the heat of their love compares only to the coals within, snuggling in a tinder embrace against the cold outside. It lends a place to unwind after a long day. To hallucinate within it's blaze, mesmorized by it's blue-green light, hypnotized by it's smoke. It can also destroy. It starts slow and menacing and quickly congraflates into an all consuming monster. Everything, gone in a flash. It civilized mankind and it will destroy it.