When the Ashes Speak
He touched the pyre with his trembling hand... Cold and settled -the ashes felt against his palm was somebody resting in peace? Didn’t appear like one... The tale of her ordeal was scribbled all over the bones.. Shivering skin..trembling hands... Pale of her skin..moisture of her eyes Pain..rushing through her soul Reaching her eyes Frail yet so determined she put up the fight A strange animal bearing eight legs Four sets of eyes Four sets of hands Shoved the seeds of their lust In the deep abyss of her womb. She protested They rejected She cried They smiled She howled They rejoiced She dealt with the four legged ones But these were the ones with two.
He touched the ashes And whispered with bitterness ...”animals ..” A strange whiff of breeze rustled through his ears .. “I treated them ... they never behaved like these .. I feared the two legged - not the four legged ones They set me ablaze for their blood had turned "COLD” ____ ____