Flames
From the timber of oakDance flickering flames.
They turn into smoke,
Shaping riddles and games.
Up the chimney they go,
Watch spark follow spark.
But no one must know
What they find in the dark.
Yet while embers they die,
Departing this earth,
I ask myself why
Always death follows birth.
Poetry by Maglor
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Written on 2005-06-08 at 17:14
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