A Child Consumed On A Bonfire Poem by Kevin Patrick Brown

Dawn rose so slowly, my gift left within
Unknowing we parted, a mystery not told
Barely I had known you, but open up I did
I longed to discover what secrets that you hid

Conviction of miracles soon passed into our hearts
I banished your fears with my faith for all time
The seed had been planted, our love would it grow?
The past, was it banished, would fidelity soon flow?

The child came so easily and bundled with trust
Old events surely buried, our future life so clear?
Our devotion was visible, all there, they could see
My heart beat so strongly, no temptation to flee

But soon came dark clouds to darken his day
The anger within us, it started a blaze
No flood halted fires we surely provoked`
Horror and dread, were flames that we stoked

His innocence no barrier to our sad twisted words
His future was squandered by righteous beliefs
The scars carefully hidden just under his skin
Could never be healed, and always within

The shadows of fire they block out the light
The smoke chokes all reason, it dirties the air
No one could help us extinguish the flames
A future of beauty burnt out with our blame

The love that could save him was hidden and bound
By doubt and suspicion and tempered with shame
Could forces of Redemption prise open the locks
and push fear back into Pandora's Box?

Who would come save him, this beautiful boy?
Conceived with our love and acknowledged with joy