What an Annoying Interruption

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Title: What an Annoying Interruption
Type: Poetry
Prompt: Write a about the end of the world and how it would ruin your day.
Warning(s): Sarcasm at it's finest in the last stanza.
Disclaimer: Poem written by tao_empress and should not be submitted stating otherwise.
Notes: My professor gave us a list of 20 prompts and we had to choose from them for our next poem. Lots of wtf-ish kind of prompts too, it's great. I'm starting to like this professor. :P

The fires of Hades erupts
Through the ground
Spilling out
Hot, seeping magma drips
Flows
Burning the streets without mercy
Sweeping past concrete footprints in the sidewalk

Flames lick the land while I
Turn the pages of my life
Just as I turn the pages of the novel
Outside the masses flee
From fires,
Engulfing, spewing out a dark haze
The world dims in its wake

And as the clouds of ash cover the sun
My eyes lose sight of the pages,
Search hopelessly for the words
Never quite finishing
Unable to complete
The story of a lifetime

Darn.
I was just getting to the good part


Written January 29, 2007