fire

Life
a raging fire
burns
a path to
passion
love yet

a spark explodes
above the forest’s
canopy
leaps
races leaf and
limb
outstretched arms

ignites a flame
and unquenchable
fire
reaches for the sky
dares even
heaven

in the end
clouds rupture
release their black
torrent
the
firestorm contained
night falls upon
its devastation

Twenty
green pills
douse the embers that remain.