A Match-Stick

The Match-Stick
The patent potential of a match-stick
I saw seething ravagely through the farmland
Crawling conflagration all alike
Beholding the hapless and helpless mind

The power of a match-stick
I knew well when in dire need
Picking up the match-box in shock
Not a single stick could find

Oh the raw rice raucously submerged
While I scrounged for a match-stick
To bring me out of the cataclysm
Before my muscular bag blows in catastrophe

Praise to my extant toils
When on a drifting table
I found a match-stick
Aiding the healing of my excruciating hunger.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Muitherero Avatar
January 10, 2014 at 7:16 AM
The hidden great power in small things, and the ambiguity in the same power. This one could fit several situations I know. A good one!
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