Two boys stand

The red grass licks at their legs like flame

The silver leaves shine under the suns fire

Everything seems to be burning but still they stand.

This is their home and nothing will move them from it

The sun kisses not bites

The flames dance in their eyes but cannot touch them

They are not afraid, this is home.

The land of play and revelry

Time is at their feet and they are invincible

That was then…

Just young green shoots they were

Taken to a tear in the very fabric of their world

A gap that threatened to consume their souls

That one glance of eternity

Changed them.

No longer green shoots, hardened by fire

This is now…

Now one boy runs while the other boy blazes

Now they are men, lords of time

Their estate has changed them, scarred them

Burned them.

Their home is gone and now they are lost.

One surfs the waves of time

Navigating the currents of past, present and future

He holds the frayed cord of reality together

He has seen time tear

And vows never again.

The other runs but can't get away

The heart beat of chaos resounds in his head

A pulse never ending, a pounding that ruins him

And drives him to destroy

To spread the flame in the hope it will leave him whole.