Lit

You wake in the midst of an inferno! In a flash your body bursts into flame. How could you not awake before this? You were reading under the cover by sterno. You go into shock and then euphoria. Death creeps in and waits with folded wings. He seems like an old friend, just the two of you. From the distance someone singing “alleluia”. You lose all your senses but anxiety. Turning to him you falter…. quietly. Peacefully serene, you accept the extreme. You enter the gate to immortality. © Charles Henderson For Brian's 2 to 14 contest