Clinging Swirls Of Fire Poem by Denis Mair

(for a painting by Chaled Res, posted March 14 on FB)
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So much conflict unfolding against the backdrop of sky...

so much fear arising out of the darkness...

darkness even more foreboding than the sky's hellscape...

sky that has shrunk to the space of an earthly theater...

theater possessed by the madness of its dramaturge...

swirls of fire-reddened smoke are drifting on the wind...

the swirls apparently clinging to each other's shapes...

like ghosts of the grand passion that tried to hold things together...

at the moment of dissolution the sky becomes their theater...

the agony of so many is the redness of this season's backdrop...

wherein is performed the passion that is their reason for being.