words, books, sentences, apostrophes
are all punctuated in amber flame.
the smoke speaks of times gone by
times to come
Fahrenheit 451 in this affair
a thousand years of history
disappears in mere moments
fanciful fabrications of the
best of minds
gone like blood in a stream.
the flames reach to burn
the heavens
in their path of destruction
they try to suffocate God
in cold heat.
and the ashes sing
as they flutter to the
earth and build a
pyramidal altar--
only the song of forgetting.
only the song of remembrance.