tradgety unfolded the night of the fire
around the corner playing cards
unaware of burning mire
two kids in the closet doomed
by loose matches
people outside kept at
bay by heat's latches
flash 2 alarmed rowhouse
consumed in a second
teary eyed Candy to GOD
she had beckoned
to her a deaf ear appeared
to had reaped
no kids on the roof
able to leap
the aunt in the backroom
escaped with her two
but why she left anthony
and the son of ole Lou?
I never got wind of,
I never quite knew.
but two tiny bodies
brought out the burnt house
a two minute fire
sucked lives like a louse
no funeral should have
two children to bury
they should be out playing
alive for mom to worry
how did Candy get
over this you ask?
the truth is she didnt...
in sorrow she'd bask
she steadily grew worse
as years pulled her chain
she trudged each day
dying... in each hour's rain
she finally smiled the day
of her death
to go see her children
with the void of her last
breath.
