Blazing Glory (Challenge #4)

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Blazing Glory (Challenge #4)

EleanorMoonbaby
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since 2002-09-02

Posts 202
England, UK

0 posted 2002-12-13 11:43 AM

There's a PVC Christmas tree
In our school hall.
A forlorn piece of plastic foliage
Fake, and feeling it.
Synthetic evergreen limbs poke out
From mummy-like tinsel bandages.
It looks like someone has taken
Every bauble known to man
And hung it on that tree
Now bearing the weight of a thousand orbs.

Changes need to be made.
I take my lighter from my pocket
And take one last look at this tragic figure.
There is a soft "snick" as I light up.
The first branch just smokes and melts
So I hold the lighter to it until
I see a flame.

For a while
It just crackles and smoulders.
Then, within a moment
It transforms.
A torch of liberty.
It's beautiful.

The next day
The janitor finds a solidified pool
Of a green universe
With gold, red and silver stars
Exploded.

I think it's an improvement.

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