The Tree Silhouetted

 

The tree silhouetted by a blazing fire

Its image shimmered in heat waves

Leaves burning like a thousand candles

A candelabrum for a sacred death rite

Lighting had struck solitary sentinel

Its sound shook verdant earth

Prometheus bringing fire from the sky

Became death and destruction

 

Aftermath charcoal blackened waste left

The land has a memory

What was is no more

But springing from mired soot

Come tenacious green sprouts

This new generation will have something to say

To the connoisseur of the forest

Green leaves rise for golden nourishment

The forest is on fire with chlorophyll