Flickers and Flames
Sound the sirens for the smoke in the rain.
It enveloped the sky and the conversation.
It burnt brightly and stopped the trains
They came running with speculation
To see the end of it all and the start of something
To see the anger and thrall
To see the men give it all or nothing
They stood back on the hillside, ripe with fingers in directions
They watched the wind of what was said and where it was blowing
They saw the lights and haze,
They saw it all from that hillside
They saw it all glowing
Cars with craned necks
barriers with breached streams
a flood of people with furrowed brows
holding back the screams
And the man on the phone watching the smoke take it all
And nothing he could do as timbers fell to the pyre
And it came down with dust and calls of the end of his crumbling empire.
Light faded and with it went the crowds
Left were the reporters and the people for the emergency
Right next to the shards and the shroud
That covered the mess and hid the urgency
The weeks came and went
The scaffold went up
The people in street whispered it was insurance
The papers said it was murky
The accusations rife in the workies
They stood still and displayed thoughts of remembrance
Dusted down the black and spoke of the days
Let the town fall silent and bemoaned the misfortune
Asked that question but found themselves wanting
For there were no answers
No reason or rhyme
As to why the valley saw red
And changed the light and chorus
Of what was said
And the chimes
The people walked past and wondered the future for two
The last of it was knocked down after six
People stopped talking after twelve
The Council tarmacked for a car park after eighteen
From time to time people spoke of what was lost
of the cost
of turning the tarmac into a Car Park
giving the tarmac some streetlights
to hide the dark
After a while it was just another day
Just another thing to talk about.
RichMyself is a 26 year old graduate in Journalism raised in Leicestershire and based in Cheshire. His work centres mostly around poetry, social commentary and short stories of which he hoping to publish later in 2013. This is his website.