MY FATHER's FIRE

Burned he employers,jobs,prospects
Burning the sugar cane for sweet harvests
When fire licked,out came the black snakes of anger
fists of frogs,spite of lizards/every vermin hiding flushed out via heat
He was armed with a cane cutter's knife.He faced the anger and sliced
After hours,he doused his own fire with beer and mates
and laughed at the harvest (soon to be machined
Red fire,blackened cane-an anarchy of controlled violence
Whenever bush fires flame and flare,i remember then and there
where necessary human heat became walls of Holocaust
I saw Berlin burning in black and white.Dresden.Tokyo.London
Flame is used to ignite wars.Pyromaniacs.Fire bombers.Molotov Cocktails
It's unrepentant anarchy used in furnaces for waste /for our bodies to be consumed.
Fire flickers flames inside us,too.Elemental as revenge/violence remains
Nurse mother warmth and father flame.Both heat in different ways
Both will pass away.