MAN ON FIRE
Angels chant and bang on drums.
Plaster demons misbehave
With souls that toil in
churning soil and somehow can’t be saved
A spark ignites to cut the
bone, a flashing, twisting, searing light
A slice of red carved in the
flesh on a glowing field of white
Watch the carrion soaked in
gas, ready to burn and twist in the flames
Dropping a match with merely a
gasp, the sky rocket product of time twisted games
Unleash all the anger that
dwells deep within, unravel your darkest desire
While feeling the burn of
hard lessons learned and the fate of a man still on fire
Bridging the distance between
hope and fear with fingers that point without blame
singing psalms for the dead,
the charred, the unspoiled, the god who remembers your name.
The working man stumbles and
his hands touch the sun. It burns like a funeral pyre.
But he laughs out loud like
he’s ready to die, a fluttering angel on fire
Peel back the skin still
seething with hate, past eyes that slither and flicker awake
Burned on the cross in the
harsh hands of time, lost in a swift twist of fate
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