Hope, A Burning Desire

The world that surrounds me burns as I steadily smoke my cigarette -

Flames engulf what is left of this town; ash falls to ash & dissolves into earth,

I ache with every gust.

Terror emits me, deeper than the depths of the raging blue sea,

I whisper to the winds, "Grant me cessation from this burning ground",

Light of the fire radiates the chilled waves, & terror is replaced by sanguinity.

Castaway among the sea, with hope nestled tightly into a seed -

Summertime heat lit the match, followed by the rotting of autumn,

& uprooted by winters winds, hope bred spring!

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Flowers root through the brute soil, engulfing this new land with propitious life,

Unscathed by winter's winds, the petals glisten -

Renascence of my lifeblood, & new depths of my pith.