Roaring Fire

• Olive Derham, Grade 6, Lansdowne Crescent Primary School
• Poetry
• 2019

Excellence Award in the 'Just Keep Writing 2019' competition

I am unsafe and you’d better run.
You see smoke. You might run when some come to stop me.
I get bigger and bigger and I devour everything in my path.
You’re are helpless.
I am blinding, deceiving, untamed and ghastly.
My appearance may change your view about me.
You might think that I am threatening and horrific, and you are right.
As I get more powerful, I become a nightmare.
I change the land into ash, I am unavoidable an unruly, and I am not interested in your loss.
Melting the land does not bother me.
As I spread, I cover more land, then I start to race…
You think I am destructive, but you don’t actually know what I can do.