Steel Burned Flower

Once a place so long ago

Held a field of flowers I tell you so

Legendary beauty you'd have to see

If you truly want to believe me


Among this field of flowers the softest one

Held her petals high in the setting sun

A gentle beauty beyond words

Set upon by the foulest birds


A traveler came by and left

And in his passing oh she wept

Her petals drooped threatening to fall

When someone covered her in metal over all


Stuck in her position the call rang out

Light them all on fire that's what we're about

The traveler came back to light the field

A gentle breeze left her to flames to yield


Hardened metal kept her there to stay

While the green of her leaves burned away

Leaving the flower to ask why

While the other flowers ashes joined the sky


And though they tried to burn her too

The metal simply hardened forged anew

Denied her right to join her kin

She took up her petals as blades so thin


Traveler was no such match

Not expecting her to rise to scratch

He plucked at her petals each he tried

Melting them to make her tears she cried


In the end he died by his own men's hands

Karmic poetry for burns left to all touched lands

No longer stationary plucked from her place

The flower drifted softly within an empty space


Her petals could not burn as the others had before

She was grounded to the earth score times four

Uprooted from her place she saw all the empty space

For where beauty had dwelt in the field ashes were in their place


Across the land she wondered with the best

A little world numbed to the rest

Still the fire within her rage

Never to gain escape or to turn the page


A moment etched within her twine

Ashes were a mercy for darkness mine

Lit with only the fire of the day

Her entire world was burned away