arqios

bright as a dare

 

It starts at a street‑corner park

—one match flicked wrong,
    and the whole block tastes brimstone.

Kids stop mid‑kick of a half‑flat ball,
dogs stiffen,
old men lift their brows 
—they’ve heard this tune before.

Then sky goes a bad fruit colour,
as every window leans to glare.

Still—
         —someone laughs,
                    sharp snapping twigs,
and in that moment the world decides
to bloom the only way it knows how:
             wild, unruly,
                        bright as a dare.

 

 

 

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