The Fire Will Burn Alive Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

The Fire Will Burn Alive

A fire will burn,
Probing its own darkness,
Before the dawn,
Before the spent energies,
Before the woods,
Before the thoughts in the available skies,

Unsettling of the noons, the dinners and then the parties,
Before such day and a lifetime becomes a shell,

Everything's kept and the splendors warped, shed at the perfect moment,

Before the sons and lovers,
Before the wishes and desires,

Before the eminence and the decline,
Before the subterfuges and the truth,

Your life has been a comedy of errors,
Your life has been the fashions of the troubles,
The price tags and the economy,

Your life has been the internal and civil wars, siege and victory

A thirst for all the living substances,
A tastes of the divine and the unwise,

Before the awakening of justice,
After the last performance,
The eyes will burn alive,