Australian bushfires

A sunburnt country or so the famous lines go,
But nature has more of its arsenal to show.
That beauty and brutality can go hand in hand,
Sharing pleasure and pain, the price of this land

The rugged mountain ranges, a paradise on high,
Carry below a demon, its embers of evil fly.
They beckon danger, flames reaching higher,
Feeding the avarice, of an ever consuming fire

The far horizons, filling with smoke and fear,
Hiding  the menace below, grows forever near,
Man and beast  know, it's time to run and flee.
As flames quickly lick higher, engulfing every tree

Single houses, and hamlets will soon be in its path,
To nearby towns they run, to escape the bushfire's wrath,
But the sky  grows darker, smoke blocks the fading sun.
The air  heavy and acrid, a disaster has now begun.

Its too late to leave now, no choice, just stay and fight.
To save our home and pets in  ever decreasing light.
The heat  now oppressive, blistering our blackened skin,
The fight to survive this living hell,  is about to begin,

Street by street, house by house, hell consumes them all,
Outrunning everyone as they flee, stagger or fall,
Some survive by good fortune. Its not their time to die.
But they'll forever ponder, to try and reason why

This wide brown land, now  charcoal black ,
People with nothing, will they dare come back,?
It will  imprint  a population, the terror of that day
Remember this land may giveth, but this land can take it away

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