Impromptu - Burning

Bare feet on shattered glass
Reality never grasped.
Hidden head beneath the sand
Always needing helping hand.
Independence never known,
Denial wanes on a dial tone.

"Pick up the phone, pick up."

Desperation rises,
Flickering images flash
"I'm in a crises,"
Family abandoned-  trash.

City streets cold and dark,
Habitat of fear - hark!
Danger lurks in shadow
Heart races for battle.

"Pick up the phone, pick up!"

Help's never there,
Your family never cared.
They started this pyre,
You are the fire.

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Reflections upon the past,
recollections never last.
The call was never answered
Remove them all like cancer.
Alone, without any support
You burned with no thwart.

Risen from the ashes, lure
New blood to the pure
Unadulterated truth -
We're all burning
I'm proof.