Fire rage and anger burn,
All the Elements discern,
What Immortal blazes bright
In the Darkness of the Night?

Twist the mind as turn the eye
And all peaceful intent belie
For Fire's might now caught aflame
Will leave us nevermore the same.

For two, once sleeping, now awake
And one sleeping the light forsake
So shift to darker does the Soul
Which burns to ash as black as coal.

Jul. 29, 1997

* Poem subject to removal for publication under different title.