From: Typhon@yabbs To: all@yabbs Subject: The Burning Touch Date: Thu Aug 18 09:04:19 1994 Slice across the azure as I fall Belly-wounded sky my wings dragdredge the vault Seared yellow white pinions glow Outcasts' fire punish blazing Plummet I glow with God's grace The ground runs from me when I get to it Towercloud of windgrit and pulseplumes of Verdant Fire Skin bubbling peeling away from Charcoaling bone yellowblack LIghtbringer I was Lightbringer Treader in the dust now Lord of Worms I fell failures fall Slickrope guts spill from my heatwithered abdomen Emeralds for eyes See my trail Hanging sloweaved bluesilk vault of sky Hides them from us From you From me First among them first creation of the one who is love In the icy towers second only to one Now I turn my firekissed neck skywards at his creation Dirtmound holding me up so I can see I laugh with the joy of it Wings crushed gelatinbone beneath my spasmback Laughing with black blood on my lips Just a poem about love. Typhon the Usurper