A Single Spark

A Single Spark

By Evan Visher

A single spark and the world bursts into flame

A single spark gives evil a name

A world united to fight those to blame

And drums begin to beat as Death plays his game

The world goes blind as we trade an eye for an eye

When we eagerly line up in order to die

As friends and family disappear

The powerful make us dance with strings of fear

But soon outcasts will begin to douse the fire

But cities burn, and the flames just get higher

Children marching into fire with faces painted red

Then we find ourselves in the fields of the dead

The fire begins to shrink and our hatred starts to fade

We look at the scorched world and the price we paid

Bodies sent home as the ocean fills with tears

And the fire’s end is here

On the scorched soil we begin to rebuild

With fields soaked in blood of those that were killed

We swear to fight all things evil and dark

But only until the next tiny spark