What Lesson Is This For Learning

a journey into fireside poetry

Original photograph by the author Seymour Toa

Leave all else alone
A lingering dial tone
Echoing in my ear
Forgetting all the fear
Alleving all the love
Agrieving all above
Down here in the dirt
Covered with all the hurt
Just one eye left to look
Frantic panic the hook
Choking on flammable tears of pain
Trembling hands try to strike a flame
Buried in a coffin and burning
What lesson is this for…