Remember Evergreen

It always begins and ends the same.

This explosion,the smoke, the flames, And her. Palms pressed against the window, she gazes into my eyes, her expression vacant, with a peculiar sadness in her eyes. "August please save me!" her voice is muffled behind the smoke, behind the glass. I race from window to window but none will open.

The smoke is getting thicker, flames climbing higher. I can't really see through the heavy soot. My fear gives away to panic, then to terror that races through every part of me. I search for something to break the window, and find a shovel leaning against an old shed. Grabbed it, and slammed it. The metal just bounces off of the reinforced glass. "Make it stop" "I don't want to die" she begs me.

But I can't,
Cant stop the pain,
Cant stop the fire, and
Can't save the girl I love.