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.