Wednesday 1 April 2009

When a Boy Will do Anything for you, Sometimes it’s Too Much


You said you loved the smell of burning wood
and the dance of flames;
roasting marshmallows and making toast.
I didn’t want you to set multitudinous fires
and burn away the forest
mingling salt with ash to make a clown smile
out of pursed lips.
When I found out what you’d done
we took our mallows to the leading edge
and I pushed you into devouring fire
and watched your bones blacken
before I called for help.

6 comments:

spacedlaw said...

Fair is fair.

aims said...

Yikes - but Spacedlaw said it right.

Rachel Green said...

But he burned so prettily...

BT said...

Cruel, serves him right though!

Unknown said...

Stupid is as stupid does and gets what it deserves. Well done, and a beautiful pair.

Rachel Green said...

Thank you