Ashes Remain

Abandoned House with 20 Years of Hoarding Up in Smoke

Ashes Remain

Shift in the wind,

Fire cleansed,

Wood, hay, and stubble,

Ashes remain.

Dross removed,

Not how imagined,

Life is short,

Ashes remain.

Twenty years hoarded,

Twenty minutes consumed,

Fire tested,

Ashes remain.

Worthless treasures,

Weighed and measured,

Found wanting,

Ashes remain.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.