Wild Fire

Wildfire 

Fire, we fear flames seeking to obliterate
to cleanse forest and plains so the land can grow
again green shoots the world has been
the cycles can start again
having cleared the undergrowth that hindered 
the freedom of samplings 
There is a flower that only bloom after a fire 
fire ephemerals can cover mountainsides 
in a multicolour of wonder.

We feel a strange attraction to the flames 
we wish it could rinse our sins, yet, we have 
a great terror for the fire of hell 

The fire we dread the most is the fire 
in mans` heart it can be wonderful but so easily 
became ruinous and manifest itself 
in greed and destruction of what is good 
There is a wildfire raging now and the Nordic
tremble and fear they might be consumed
by the firestorm.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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