Leader

If the world is burning would you know.

Is this my leader I see now

Standing in front of me so bravely

The fire he holds in his hand

Is wielded like a weapon

He beckons forth with it

Waving it like crazy

So the light paints stripes across the air

And the visage speaks only of intensity

Soon I become frightened

Unaware of my surroundings

But those around me they watch

With nothing but sheer amusement in their eyes

This spectacle is so riveting

But the heat is bringing my blood to boil

The trees, the shrubbery is melting away

Smoke drifts upward from the fire

The landscape around me is transforming

The world is becoming enveloped

In a smoky grey gas condensing

Onto my clothes

Onto my skin

I see birds trying to fly

But the world is burning to fast

The gas it rises too quickly

They are brought down before their flight has begun

And now all the animals

Other than human run

With nowhere to go

As the heat singes the earth

Causing luminous flames to spread

They perish

Still all the while those around me

Their eyes are fixed on the man

Waving the fire so brightly

Back and forth back and forth

Soon I begin to give in

Simply dedicate my attention to him

My worries flutter away with my distraction

Quite unlike the dying birds

For how long I watch this

I could not say

It is only when he trips and falls

Into the American flag

Burning it as it entangles him

I snap out of hypnosis

As America burns I now see the world

Dying right in front of me

Like butter I am melting

And now the others realize

The light from their eyes extinguishes

Sadly, the fire does not

Before my life falters to a halt

I see around me the same thing happening

Hundreds of flags

Thousands of burning victims

When our eyes are focused on the fire

We cannot see what it burns.