015 Explosion

Orange and yellow blossoms unfurling to the sky
with cores of brilliant blue and luscious white.
When the seed, the ember, lands upon a bed,
then the fire blossom begins to grow and spread.
Such a funny pollen, wispy ashes, dead and grey,
but from this fertile afterburn, life will return one day.

She is the elemental fire, content to purr upon the hearth,
but twisted to malicious ends, she may rise to scorch the earth.
Harnessed in the forge, the bombs and combustion engines,
her body may be caged, but her passion lies beyond your ken.
Given the chance, she will devour anyone, be they enemy or friend.
She thanks you for the napalm, but that won't spare you, in the end.

She has eaten witches and the bodies rife with plague.
Her nectar overflowed and drowned all of Pompeii.
She took the coal in Centralia from your careless hands,
along with the Horizon and Colombia, just because she can.
And one day, billions of years from now, the sun will be old and red
and suck us in to warm its dying heart, so what more can be said?

Fire wins in the end.



* I'm not sure about the 'eaten witches' line, because it sort of makes it sound like they were actually witches and... I meant it in the way that people have used fire to try and eliminate the things which scared them, and yet the fire itself is just as terrifying... Meh. Take from it what you will.  >_>;

* I wasn't going to use Centralia, because it doesn't sound pretty, but since the other two things are American... If you didn't know, Centralia, Pennsylvania is a ghost town because of underground coal fires. It was an inspiration for the town in Silent Hill, among other things. :ninja: