The Prairie Fire
Fire races across the prairie grassland
Scorching and searing anything that it pleased
With fear and fury it caused destruction all along
Destroying in it's path all that does not belong.
Sparkling ash swirls and dances on ahead
Coating,blackening everything in it's path
The flame reaches out for what is near
Causing destruction, panic and fear.
The smoke quickly fills the air
Smothering all within it's grasp
Choking, black soot hanging heavily
Suffocating all that with stood it's wrath.
Once that was lush for the picking
Now becomes a bleak, lifeless charcoal waste
Where all living souls become displaced
In this land that is now waste.
Copyright © Phyllis Babcock | Year Posted 2010
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