Incendiary Poem by Dale Mullock

Combined chemical cocktail flares awake,
Causing caliginous clouds to touch the skies,
Heated haze thickens into concentrate,
Of yellow, red and orange blaze surprise.
My vision opaque from soot black plumed smoke,
Which rises and mingles with the midnight,
As I fall to my knees, to gasp and choke,
Hands wrapped around throat, grasping so tight,
Still I shuffle on, towards the staircase,
In the small hope of freedom and escape,
Sliding down each step until the base,
Is reached, here I do make out a shape,
Through rokey fumed, flamed coiled doorframe,
Collapsing after they call out my name.