Quicksilver To Ash

Fire!

Daubed in darkest night

A pulsing brush of Vermillion

Spanning earth to sky

Sired!

In molten flames of biting rock

From the earth within

A show of force unleashed on all

Serpentine the river flows slowly through crag and cleft

Consuming fallen trees over the shallow ledge

Ever moving in a measured pace down argentite slopes

Adding to the sliding shale over centuries untold

Emblazed on a darker canvas, the dissolution of light

Scattered on the northern gale, swept away in a sea.... a sea of black (ash)

Ash to ash, and so the path is mottled in the cooling night

The slaggy trail of scoria atop the molten core

Smoke and fumes issued forth far below the cliff

Engulfing all from talus low to spire high

Entropic acceleration, a pyrogenic demise

Racing ever forward with granite seas aflame burning high... burning into

night

Gone!

And where were those that lie in wait?

Based aside base in tribute to colossus

Where dwelled the foolish few...

Supplicant life spent in the pulsing shadow

Of enthralling force to abyssal to pursue

As in turn it now pursues

A cleansing conflagration for all who may descry

Purging the tenantry of light.

Serpentine the river flows slowly through crag and cleft

Consuming fallen trees over the shallow ledge

Ever moving in a measured pace down argentite slopes

Adding to the sliding shale over centuries untold

Emblazed on a darker canvas, the dissolution of light

Scattered on the northern gale, swept away in a sea, a sea of black ash