Flame To Inferno

Dormant ashes, coals within, Tremble as a passing breeze Sprays cold gray dust across the smoky air All seems bleak and dead The breeze strengthens Ashes swirl and soar Uncovering embers and simmering coals Temperatures rise and sparks fly As the grave of gray rises like a phoenix from its ashes Flames spiral out of the ground Its pale gray now radiant with light A bird of flame unfurls its wings and takes flight Leaving its ashes behind to settle in the dark Faster Higher Louder Further the flame grew Turned a striking shade of red And frayed the darkness Revealing perhaps what was not yet meant to be revealed At the bird's peak, the colors shifted The phoenix plummeted Faster Lower Silent An inferno of icy blue Still burning all in its path Then there is emptiness In a dry well of sorrows Frost melting the stone The phoenix now shrouded in cold mist Simmers Shafts of light escape the cavern of the well And with a thunderous roar The stone crumbles and a hawk hurtles upwards Fire in its eyes The tips of its wings aflame Red and Black Everything burns Cracks and buckles Still the hawk hovers Its gaze crushing and cruel At whom? Black and Red Fire and Ice My empty, dry well… crumbles