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
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