Fire

Fire surrounds her

strangling her hope

and her need to live.

It takes everything

her home

her family.

Everything is gone.

She has nothing left

to love

to hold.

Ashes bite her feet as her strength,

her resolve,

her bravery

crumbles under the all powerful flame

and she falls to the ground

tears coating her dirt stained cheeks.

There is nothing left to live for

but her hand reaches for life as she takes her final breath.

The fire took all that she had

all that she loved

and all that she was

until there was nothing left.

Ashes surrounded her

choking her until all feeling was lost

and she became one with the thing she feared the most.

Fire surrounds her

strangling her.

The wind blows and all that remains flies into the orange night,

a mere memory of what the flames destroyed.