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You're a Pompeiian poet. Volcanic ash is raining down. You write one last poem. What is it?
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adrandall in Poetry & Free Verse

Desolation

All I see is embers

The beast aglow

Knowing this is the last moment

Billowing clouds of ash dominate the sky

And all I can hear are the screams of my people

All I see is white

Whiteness slowing suffocating my brothers

Come the end of the day

When the sky has fallen

Will you remember me?

All I see is red

Waters flowing crimson of my sisters

Come the end of the day

When all is in ruins

Who will watch over those who are lost in the flurry?

All I see is black

Keep watch over our souls

For the Mountain burns with its wrath

Covering Pompeii for the last time

Will you remember us?

All I see—