Fire makes a slow pilgrimage 

Walking on giant’s legs

Immigrating through the trees

Her feet touch the dry earth

And the wet earth

With equal hatred.

 

She reaches with big hands,

Scoops up the green life

And holds it, watches it

With great flickering eyes

She lets out a scream and

Tosses the green life back to the ground 

But now it is scorched and blackened

 

Fire treks up the mountains

Crosses the rivers

Breathes out smoke and eats the sky

Stomps, stomps over the little land

She roars, inhaling, exhaling

Demanding more life to scorch-

 

Fire, jealous of the sun, tries to move higher

She swats, annoyed, at the falling rain

Rages as the wind blow, stands taller,

Grows mightier, mightier till she

Swallows up the whole tiny greenland

And spits it back out

Scorched and blackened

 

And across the waters where the fire

Cannot reach out her long arms

Little people watch and 

Try to weep enough to put her out

But she continues her trek

Through Australia.