All Is Lost Poem by Matt Render

There's a single flame
That remains
Apprehensive and flailing
Through a stolid morning wind

Trails of dust hang on a pallid horizon
Showing yesterdays bounty
Devoured

And now a rotting carcass
Is consumed by the hour
And way over yonder
One million glass houses
Are shattered by fire

Exploding crystal debris
Igniting the trees
And frost-bitten leaves
Illuminating open chasms
Of earth

To never be sewn
To lay barren and alone
Empty and bereft
I tell you now and not again
This is all that's left.