MOLTEN FIRE



Molten fire
       flowing through my veins
Razor blades
          slash within my brain,
Burning fire-drops
                       seep to my fist
Searing up ‘long my arm
            from my fire-sown wrist.

Molten agony
              the pain flows on again
Lasting for hours
           I’d swear I’m half insane,
Agony intensifies
               as through my arm it flows
Till excrutiating agony is
                  the only thing I know.

Molten fire burning
         from my elbow to wrist
My hand is surely burning
             Too sore to form a fist,
Burning agony keeps
                   climbing to my brain
Burning like my vein’s afire
                   until I’m near-insane!

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About this poem

After receiving harsh antibiotics in 2007, to cure a lung infection, my right hand and arm to the elbow were sore and numb for a week.

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Written on 2007

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 18, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXXAXBXB XXXAXXXX CBCBXAXA XXX
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Characters 746
Words 103
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 3

Phil Roberts

I turn 65 on the 31st of January 2022. I love cats, rock music, and horror fiction and poetry more…

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