INTERNAL INFERNO by Josh Burden

INTERNAL INFERNO
by Josh Burden

^. Moulded by society and man
^. the sculpture stands still.
^. never wandering from the way it should be,
^. being seen only the way they want it to be.
^. the people pass and glance at it quickly.
^. it looks like all the others, just stone,
^. but it is not.
^. deep within the cold, hard rock,
^. a fire burns.
^. raging red flames inside the steady grey stone.
^. as each person passes the fire burns stronger.
^. over time there grows cracks, pieces get chipped,
^. until eventually the shell can no longer hold strong.
^. all at once the internal inferno
^. blazes forth
^. blowing away
^. all that existed before
^. it is now that the world sees the truth
^. and never will it be the same,
^. and never will it be forgotten.

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