ASHES
ASHES I cried more tears than my eyes could bear. And I drove at a top speed that a mother would fear. Just in a day, my whole world had been burnt down to zilch. All I had left was an old rusty car that Father forgot to park in the garage and the petrol that kept it on the road. I still remember the tears that the burning house squeezed from my eyes as I watched puffs and puffs of deep choking smoke escape into the sky. My heart tore out of my breast as I ventured into the burning house but the firemen held me back. I kicked dust into the air as I held on to their clothes. Did they know the whole of me was in that burning house? My eyes sparked more flames than those of the burning house. I couldn’t bear the pain. My little daughter, Kate, was in there with my aged father. I blinked continuously hoping the gruesome images that passed before me would disappear, but I was to see the worst. The firemen rushed out of the house with a stretcher. It had the remains of Father. He wa...