Burning Land

Context: Here's another piece of boredom from Chemisty AP! This one was texted to one of my good friends in an act to stave boredom. It initially had his name in it but I edited that out and reworked the ending. Enjoy!

There was a man like no other;
He knew that to smother
The pluming fires of a wasteland lost
He would have to pay a cost.
This man was known about the land;
He knew that he would be a hand
To all the people of the land
And from one hand to the other,
Burning ash was passed
Down like a precious family jewel.
This land was burned, beaten and brown
But after the burning
This land could see amongst its masses
Only one man, this man above all
This man to whom they dedicate a hall
This man who had no fear.
He was but a wise and elder seer
Sitting amongst the forgotten ashes
Of a lonely, burned out land.
This man could see above it all,
This man could see through the fall
Of this forgotten, lonely land.
This man;
This man stood above
The land, which burned.
This land, which hurt.
This man is only greater than
A crusted over forgotten shell of land
Is this man a hero?
Is anyone?

*Credits to Anastasia for helping me with the rhymes in a few of the lines, thank you much!

Here's a bonus, this was written up in a similar vain but it's lacking any real depth and it's just sort of silly. This one got some good giggles from the person I was texting, hope you like it.

How does one see him?
How does one hear him?
Naught could see this man,
Naught could beat this man.
A man is nothing amongst ham,
A man is nothing if not a raw ham,
There was once a man.
Not a man, but a man's man.
He stood above the ham,
This man above ham.
He would take no ham
For he was above the ham.