Number 5 From "52 Days, 63 Poems"
Number 5, 6:20 pm – 2004/01/18
This house is burning down
The flames contrast
Against the grey-black smoke
And soon the roof and walls
Will crumble and collapse
The foundations
Will be ash
But the ruins
Don’t lie silent
The sound you hear
Is a song of joy
Triumph
Rejoice
This house is burning down
And after every ending
This can be
The start of something new
The flames contrast
Against the grey-black smoke
And soon the roof and walls
Will crumble and collapse
The foundations
Will be ash
But the ruins
Don’t lie silent
The sound you hear
Is a song of joy
Triumph
Rejoice
This house is burning down
And after every ending
This can be
The start of something new
(From "52 Days, 63 Poems" by Colin Read)
This work is licensed under a Attribution Creative Commons license
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