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Fighting Fire with Molotovs

Tight stretched skin, not unlike leather parchment
Adorned with scars and burns and such carvings
Among the colors, red ink's enrichment
Envelops a file cabinet's burnings

Advice from the mental advisory
Suggests that all these thoughts be locked away
In filing in forgotten drawery
To the night is left burdens of the day

Where were they all put, these things once forgot?
Within the belly of the hungry fire
Sift the ashes in its wake, all for naught
Unabated, flames climb ever higher

Once-was engulfed, still the fire spreads untamed
Lost memories, the cost of ink unnamed

Copyright © | Year Posted 2024




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