A Letter from the Past

A Letter from the Past
from Paperless Poetry
By Nabil Abou Baker
8/21/2010

The house burns down to the ground
Finalizing a permanent transition into ashes.
Ashes, the road taken but I enter the
Home of ashes now re-imagining blurbs
Of the past in the present. Blurbs, redefining
People’s history and watching how the
Fire evolved or devolved those still
Present from the beginning. Interesting
How the experience with drug, alchohol,
Love, lust, violence, religion, politics, sex,
Education or the lack there of and general
Adversity can build a new complex being
Or test on to the very core, nearly destroying
Everything flesh deep. Unfortunately, for
The children of the home not all could
Or can or will survive the flames of
The great fire that burned the house.