Emblazoned. Can you feel it? The fire, The white hot, radiating flame Set ablaze by an intangible being Something nobody knows Like an unsolvable mystery A question left unanswered Left there to decay Like an unopened letter, Corners tearing and wasting away Edges beginning to burn into nothingness So the contents may never be seen, Never be felt Never be heard again The ink melting and splaying Across the page, tiny remnants of it Forming a microcosm of the unrelenting haze That is suffocating the night sky Forcing itself upon the tops of the trees The smoldering branches and withering leaves Making a revival of the forest almost impossible For all the trails and paths are unnavigable Clouded by a smokescreen of pain and misfortune The once endless, lush, Serenity of branches Attempt to reach for the sky Like a baby reaching for its mother The only thing it knows that can give it life That can keep it safe But are constantly smothered by the endless grey The seemingly perpetual mess of burning air But somehow, Somehow, There’s a pinnacle of light One last glimmer of hope That hope is you You’ve started a spark in my soul And even though my face has started to burn up I finally feel whole.