and now it is mount buffalo in the air
I can taste it
Victoria is burning and remnants
from an acreage of flame
have shrouded melbourne
like a smog that is the land
that is all the good
gone
black and dying
and in my home town
the hills and valleys are alight
from the old home
you can see flame burning
licking at sky
turned crimson red
embers on the rise
close enough to fire
the cricket pitch
where zim evans used to bat
while I would bowl
and I don't think
it's ever going to be
the way it was
my old home
is burning
on fire
~
Frank
The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
http://www.tales-of-faust.com/
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