Short Spider Orchid

Smoke filled the empty sky

Birds flutter, birds fly

The tiny flower rises

Plum purple, verdant green

Like we’d never seen

Crash!  

Boom!

Snap!

Flames formed 

Sparks swarmed 

The crimson wall nears

Washing it with fear

The forest crumbles underneath

The baked land falling beneath 

The trees that once stood tall 

Now consumed by the crimson wall

The clouds swept away

The sky left chalky grey

The forest devoured

Overpowered.