Ablaze

Eyes burn bright
On sleepless nights
Staring into dancing flames
Watching a world burn within.

Walking the cobblestone
A building engulfed
People screaming
People burning
A flaming renaissance.

Da Vinci’s hand,
Dante’s design,
Shakespearean.

Inside the embers
So clear,
so crisp.
A beautiful tragedy.

-Transcendent-

A silhouetted rider
Mounts a white horse
Rearing up above the flames.
Terror lay in its eyes,
Evil laced the rider’s.

The horse’s scream
-distant-
But the stallion close enough to touch.

Their shadows given shape By the amber glow behind.

The vision
-Extinguished-
As the world,
The world on fire
Now In ashes.

-Nessie Roswell