Flame red, blue and green <br />came the light from the sky, <br />around different hearts were beating wild, <br />trees massed in session, <br />paths few and overgrown, <br />none remembered the way back home. <br /> <br />Leaves fall, crushed to the ground, <br />snakes live and die in harmony, <br />night became unbearable tension, <br />great cats stalk our way, <br />held off only by fire glow, <br />relieve us becomes our cry, <br />we would face death daily, <br />in the claws of these wild beings. <br /> <br />Daylight brought us protection, <br />a feeling only of safety from danger, <br />we moved on ever nearing <br />the end of this cursed jungle, <br />we had not eaten for three days <br />but the cats had gone hungry longer. <br /> <br />I write these few words <br />as the fire dies forever <br />and they close in.<br /><br />Richard Allen Beevor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/single-route-through-the-valley/
