Victoria's Fires

So many with heavy life crosses to bear
Where their homes once were blackness everywhere
And galvanize roofing iron and walls burnt to the ground
And blackness from the fierce flames for many miles around
Tears for family members and friends who died in the huge fire
That burnt it's way through many a town and shire
Tears for dead pets and livestock and possessions lost
The flames of death and destruction had come at a huge cost
Some of the fires the work of arsonists or so it has been said
The one who would do such a thing cannot be right in the head
More than 80 people unaccounted for most of them feared to be dead
Add that to the 210 human lives lost and the burn victims in their hundreds of which I have read
More than a million livestock and pets and wildlife have died
In the great fires that blackened most of Victoria's countryside.