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 (an) 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