Magnify

A speck on fire, a lens, a lair
Feet on hills, an itch, so human.
Magnify, magnify
Oh rose desire, sapphire
Azul and black the skies
Magnify or die
Magnify and die.
Ants beneath the sadist's scope
Survivors on a burning rope
With hands and eyes and skin
But nothing so distinctive
As the plume by which we burn.
Magnify, magnify
Oh magnify his name we cry
And wash away the majesty.
So the parchment seared
A blue of Poseidon's hue
Tarnished by the same
Oh burning, dying flame
Oh misbegotten lens
Of an unforgiving ire . . .
Kill the fire.