A Curse

Road by road

House by house

The death toll mounts

Raging bush fires

Eating homes

And church spires

Who are the demons

Who set these blazes?

May they burn in Hell

Throughout the ages

Lives lost cannot be replaced

Australia's animals' habitat

Is now a blackened space

Where Koala roamed

And the Kangaroo

Called home

The Cockatoo cries

As Australia's wildlife dies

Families weep for loved ones lost

And the many brave fire fighters

Who have paid the cost

Who are the demons

Who set these blazes?

May they burn in Hell

Throughout the ages

© February10 2009

Faye Sizemore

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"In the End, we will remember not the words

of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)