lying in an oven
heat devouring every cell
frozen in place
burning alive
molten eyes sweeping
daddy lion and mommy tiger crouch on the walls
another war
angry voices shriek searing light
furiously zapping
each pierces the other
in the oven
white hot beams ricochet
petrified
the lion and tiger war never-ending
slowly I melt…
into…
{nothing}
SJ Harrold
SJ Harrold is an attorney and corporate executive who resides on the North Shore of Massachusetts.