Torment in Grief

The comforting warmth of a beast

A cozy fireplace we all fear

Millions of crisps turned to ashes

Lives lost in an instant

Fungi dead

Ferns burnt

Sticks to ashes

Mosses gone and perished

deaths increasing but…

without death, no life,

without grief, no happiness

without up, no down and 

up above we see

New life arising, blooming

From the ants to the beetles

To the damp forest floor filled with new sprouts…

Misery will always follow but

Grief will not last

unless you ask it to…