A child shrinks in an ambulance
under his mother’s charred jacket he cries
face smothered by ashes
a burning house reflected in wide eyes
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Into his tears he’s choking
body-pain, but heart-devastation
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He must leave as an orphan
behind him the burnt body of a mother
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First blaze. The first of unsaid goodbyes
First blaze of ambulance sirens
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Painful tears burn on scarred cheeks
The first blaze of lonely hurt