Incinerate
The Last Flame Challenge
The Fool
loudly contends
“There’s no danger in
‘Playing with fire’!
A little harmless fun
never hurt any one!
Right?”
*
Fire
ushered in
like a friend so true
unfolds a warm
comforting blanket
in flickering tongues of many a hue.
Cosy.
*
Flames
flare, flitter and flow
a cloud of golden butterflies
dance and mesmerise
lift spirits, link souls
warm hands and hearts as campfire yarns are
Spun.
*
Fire’s
an obliging buddy
Except when ‘Play’
runs amok.
Matches are struck
foolhardy fingers get
Singed.
*
Home and hearth
are torched by
careless comments cast
upon the four winds
lives burnt by wagging tongues
Gossip’s malicious
Inferno.
*
“Playing with fire”
dangerous desire
raging out of control
like a ravenous bushfire
annihilates far more than the Fool who strikes the match.
They, along with their whole world…
Incinerate.
*
Verbal Arson!
Avoidable devastation
callous destruction!
Well placed Trust and timely Truth quench
Envy and Evil until
one enduring ember glows… then
Winks out.
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