Flame retardant
Referring not to a family of
Chemicals but a specific function: to stop or slow down the flames
So quick before I’m nothing but ashes
Flat grey powdery ashes
Snowing ashes
Please!
Give me something to satiate this burning desire
This self destructive fire
Red Hot whispering tongues lapping up the oxygen in the air
I see raw blistering arms in the flames the longer i stare
Besides
Oxygen is over rated
I can barely breathe anyway
Every breath agonizing
And the harder I try the faster I burn alive
Because oxygen feeds fire
And you’d think by now I’d have learned
You can’t play with fire without being burned
And even as the fire blazes
I worship the flames and dance in amazement
Consume me alive
Purify my soul
let the flames make me whole.