Fire: Before and After

Total wilderness,

A world filled with tenderness 

Touching like a rose.

Magical moments,

Encompassed by time's hard shell,

Fragile, sweet and pure.

Solitary man

Surveying a disaster;

Acrid smoke rising.

Life goes on.

Once more,

The sound of children's laughter,

A mother's love book.

Beautiful rainbow,

The agony of the night

Disappears at dawn.  

Life goes on before and after a forest fire.