I shut the door

sit on the stoop

watch the rain come though

the clouds

to the Earth.

Lightning strikes from above

spiked with white rage

but no love

I follow it into the forest.

Then I see a spark

illuminating the dark

She rises in a halo of red and orange and white

her eyes burn with malice.

I try to run

try to escape

she follows in my wake.

I'll try to defend

but this is my end.

I trip 

I fall

she stares through it all.

Seeing me valnerable

she leaps upon me

and starts to relieve me

i burn in glory

from outside-in

inside-out

I'm ashes and dust

and from it 

I rise like a phoenix 

free for all eternity

from the bonds that once restrained me.