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Forest Fire by ~ScaryFairy:iconScaryFairy:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Family Life > Open


Forest Fire

My family tree’s
loosing all its leaves
crashing towards
wide open sky
and out of sight.

It’s dark here;
one can’t see
the leaves for trees
and finite forests,
infinitely tall.

Fragile skeletons
littering the soil
in tattered drifts
where children bend
and dig for clues.

Forest fire,
deathly cold,
clapping all
to its silent heart,
forest fire.
©2008 ~ScaryFairy
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The first two lines are from a beautiful Arcade Fire song called 'In the backseat', I selfishly stole them and comandeered them to make something much less beautiful!

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