Red,

Orange,

Yellow flames,

Hungrily licking,

Anxiously clawing at

The metal bars

Of the Grate.

Forming shapes,

Beautiful and

Horrible,

Gone within the

Instant.

A doorway to the

Other Side,

The power of the Sun,

Captured within the flames.

Angry flames,

Burning flames, 

Eating at the world.

Gray Men sitting,

With long beards

And mustaches,

Thinking about Life.

They are all,

And we are all,

Enlightened faces in the Fire.