This poem is NOT part of the Falling Angels series of poems. This one is fun and silly and rhymes. This one is for today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt: amenable.
Alphabeasts: amenable to fun

This poem is NOT part of the Falling Angels series of poems. This one is fun and silly and rhymes. This one is for today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt: amenable.
Written in 2009.
Set a torch to me
Why don’t you?
It’s not the tearing sound of fabric
A small rip
And now a tear
That I feel
It’s the torch
I’ve been here before
A job where the idealistic came
As moths to the flame
Self-immolation
Because they had ideals
I watched and burned and rose
It’s the torch
The flames that rise
As the witch is burned
Tilts back her head
In ecstasy and knowledge
Eager to learn what she can
From these burning brands
In the burning we learn
In pain we learn
If we can remain open
Ashes fall to the ground
Buckets of water
Wash any remains to grey mud
Gone, punished
Relief for the frightened
An example has been set
No but what stirs at night
Moon or none
What rises from the mud
The ashes
Takes form
Takes flight
Laughing
Set a torch to me
Why don’t you?
And see what is created
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