I am an abandoned burning car
In the middle of the desert
And I am on fire.
My engine croaks
and my body groans
as the flames warp
and disfigure me
My shape,
My colour.
My engine oil boils
burning like hot lava,
Plastic melts like butter
around me.
Flames lick at my feet
trying to drag themselves up
my raging body
to engulf me
entirely.
My paint peels away
so delicately almost like
a second skin.
And then you see
what’s really underneath.
