Let's watch the city burn

A poem about temptation.

Flames from inside every house,

burning all, down to the last mouse.

Idiots who decided to stay,

Now impossible to run away!

Do you want to burn it with me?

Leaving only the massive sea?

Let's bring this place to ashes

With delightful bright orange flashes.

Nothing else to do but stare,

Wondering why should I care?

Cracked walls soon tumble,

In a giant burning urban jungle.

Black clouds cover the blue sky,

Dulling the color of the sprinkled lie

Sparing whoever wishes to die.

This is how the flames fly.

The city looks away

Do you want to burn it with me?

Fogging the day

Light the match, then flee.

Demanding mercy

which you will not supply.

As I open my heart and..

Don't even try.

Watch them all die.

Author's Note

*This is quite a rushed explanation, I am sorry, but I hope it clears at least some doubts"

I will do my best to explain this poem stanza by stanza, but it may be difficult as each stanza by itself doesn't make much sense.(except maybe for the last one). So I will try to explain the whole poem at once, or at least give some pointers here or there. Now, first thing's first, the poem features two voices speaking to each other, yet not directly. The poem starts by showing the first voice, staring out at a burning city. The first voice is having pity over the city, saying that they are "idiots who decided to stay" and did not run away like he did, now it is too late as the flames have spread. Then, the voice switches instantly into a more...sadistic voice. The second voice asks the first voice if he wants to burn the city with him. This shows that indeed, the second voice isn't speaking now, but before the burning actually started. The second voice then continues to say that the fire would be beautiful, with "Delightful bright orange flashes". Jumping back at staring at the city burning, the first voice says that there's nothing to do but stare at the city waste away. Now here, the reader should have figured out that the first and second voices are indeed the same person, I didn't write that before hand just in case your reading the poem and my explanation part-by-part. "Wondering why should I care?" is a sign that he indeed DOES care for the burning city, but he is wondering why should he care, since he started the fire in the first place. Cracked walls soon tumble in a giant burning urban jungle. This is a very important phrase. "Cracked walls" does not mean physical cracked walls, but faults in the city itself.. This line means that due to all of it's flaws, the city was bound to fail sooner or later. In the next stanza, "Black clouds cover the blue sky dulling the color of the sprinkled lie". Deception is eliminated by eliminated the deceptive. So thanks to the roaring flames, the truth is revealed in the "Dulling the color" of the sky. "Sparking whoever wishes to die, this is how the flames fly" This means that by having no mercy, no regrets and no remorse. Sparing only those who actually wish to die, the flames succeed. Evil succeeds. The last stanza is the final punch. "The city looks away" ignoring and abandoning, and the offer to burn it comes. He accepts it, and "fogging the day", by lighting the match. Before he flees the city, he has regrets, even before the fire as spread. He turns back to stop the flame as he seas the mistake, but the second voice screams "Don't even try", so he escapes to "Watch them all die"

Note: The city is indeed a metaphor for anything you hate or are currently angry at. The second voice is temptation to do harm to that thing, while the first voice is logical reason.

P.S: Forgot to mention, inspired by Hollywood Undead - city"