There’s a girl in the sunset 
Her hair is ablaze 
Her dupatta streams 
In the arid breeze 
I can’t see her face 
I catch my breath 
She stands there still
So still 
I see the horizon seethe and rage
Scorch her in its red-hot rampage  
I close my eyes
I’m afraid to look
Afraid to see the heavens burn
Afraid to see the ashes blown
Of the girl that is standing there alone 

But then 

My stinging eyelids fly open, I see
She’s still there
She looks back at me 
The blaze of the sun 
Now a shimmering red
Halo around her head
Like a crown 
She won’t go down 
When her world careens
When her world burns all around 
Grey smoke rising from the sea 
Of charred, asphyxiated dreams 
She stands there serene
She gathers the light around her being 
She smiles, she gleams
She is the fire queen.