• Wait,
    let's back up a moment.
    Right at the explosion,
    freeze-frame,
    freeze-flame.

    The polices' sirens were wailing
    as were the people inside
    screaming
    burning
    dying, slowly

    Listen to their hearts
    bump
    bump
    bump
    ...

    Silence within ten souls
    the flames drowning out their cries
    drowning their energy
    eating them up ravenously,
    as if there were no food in the world but them.

    The smoke was rising
    the windows burst like balloons
    the roof became unstable

    Right as the roof falls,
    Wait.

    Freeze-frame,
    Freeze-flame,
    Freeze life.