As Things Burn

Fire

The air around me was cold and thick, the night sky full of stars and the moon shined brightly coating the building tops of a run-down city. Buildings covered in graffiti and debris from who knows where, my eyes trailed the tops of each and every single building as I watched more and more people emerge from the shadows to watch a building burn around them.
The fire was bright, crackling could be heard for miles, dark thick smoke filled the air and slowly made its way to my nose and everyone else’s in the distance as well. I stood on top of the tallest building in the area, watching that horrid building burnt to the ground with their lifeless bodies inside. My chest felt tight, and my hands shook with fear and anger, my entire life was spent in that building day after day I would hope for the day, I’d be free from ever having to go back and that day has finally come… Yet it hurts. I know why it hurts, and I want it to stop.
I can still hear her voice calling out my name in the back of my head, it rang through my thoughts and tears began to stream down my face. I should’ve done something, anything to save her but I got scares, I got weak. If I had simply done something maybe she would be alive right now... or maybe I’d even be dead.
I did this for both of us. Now that building burns down the ground leaving everything to burn to a dark crisp. The day I was thrown into that building I would dream of the day it falls by myself or by someone else, and now it’s happening.
Soon after, people began to circle the building, yells could be heard from the ground below and I know that was my que to leave. I took a swift turn taking one last look at the building before, it felt as if a weight was being lifted off my chest and I was finally free. Free from the building, free from the pain, nothing was holding me back anymore from living my life… yet it felt odd, like something that I was grown to do is gone and I have no meaning for my life anymore.