Author: Sally Wiget (handle on scifi.com bboard: wishfulthinker)

Spoilers: Obvious by title, don't you think? (Take a bit of poetic license, BTW.)

Fire burns,
his clawlike hands reach out,
the darkness in the light.



Fire burns,
his invisible hands reach out,
hugging death to himself.



Fire burns,
the darkness dies,
the hands…



keep reaching.