the fire was alive to her eyes

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the fire was alive to her eyes
          a raging, devouring beast
she shivered in the heat of the flames
   flinched from the falling ashes

    the crackle was to her ears
a hideous, deafening sound
          the hisses like snakes
the roar that of some pre-historic beast

  she watched with unshed tears
      as her world was changed to black brittle ashes
  which the hot wind whisked away

        eyes and lungs burning
she struggled to breathe and see
   through the obscuring smoke
hiding the force of destruction

       she felt alone, forgotten
and yet starkly visible
   as the flickering red flames danced
     the deadly dance of death

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