All the Matches
Your house is burning
Fuel the fire, make some s'mores
Dance around as your life and family
Smoke and die inside
See it spread from house to house
Feel the heat as the flames envelop the crowd
Roast your wieners on stick
As your hamlet burns up real quick
A nation engulfed by flames
Watch citizen douse them with oil
Cook like popcorn, bursting open
A world inflamed gone up in flames
Nothing but an explosive maze
All as the two of us turn and weep
For all the matches, yet left untouched.
10/4/20 – Andy McRae
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