Emmy White

Fire

The masses
Did not want us,
Walls built higher
Than the stars themselves.

I saved flame for them,
Cartilage spilled
Across baking
Bricks.

I burnt
Populaces,
Matted shrubs,
Leaves, smouldered,
Fear ablaze against oak.

I want to see the impressions,
The marks of my avenge,
Bleached softly, carved,
A city soiled.
Eternal:

If your village
Does not want me,
I will burn it to the ground.

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Emmy White is a creative writing graduate and news writing intern from Sydney, Australia. Her work has been published in Offspring Magazine, Fauxmoir magazine, ByMePoetry's 'Poetica II', and Train River Publishing's Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2020, and Spring 2021 anthologies. You can follow Emmy on instagram at @poeticallyordinary.