Strips <br />her self <br /> <br />of her clothes <br />(those he had bought her) <br /> <br />burns them <br />in the garden <br /> <br />in an auto-da-fé <br />of him <br /> <br />everything burns <br />that had anything <br /> <br />to do with him. <br /> <br />She watches <br />her life with him <br /> <br />go up in flames <br />her past nothing but ashes <br /> <br />tanned <br />nude <br /> <br />back to her own skin <br />again <br /> <br />resenting the mark <br />of white flesh <br /> <br />encircling her <br />wedding finger <br /> <br />covering it up with <br />fake tan. <br /> <br />'Now...! ' <br />she smiles <br />'...my new life begins! '<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/burn-baby-burn-2/
