zombie stories

I've decided to start posting my zombie story that I'm almost done working on.  I'm going to put it up in installments.  It's in its third draft as its being posted on the page and the form may yet change before I'm done with it.  Please, check it out at http://zombiestories-jdallen.blogspot.com/2012/01/about-girl-part-1-by-jef-allen.html

Pilot Light

Hello to any loyal followers who still check to see if I've posted anything, even though I haven't posted anything for a very long time.  I've got some updates I'm going to make in the near future, including this poem I wrote tonight:

Pilot Light

I am diminished.
The greatness in me has faded to a flicker
Like the pilot light of a great furnace:
When not needed, it is quiet
And forgotten .

Yet cold creeps in
And soon the furnace will be needed once more.
A fire will blaze once again from its depths,
The sleeping giant will be awoken
To combat the winter's bite.

And so it begins:
The fuel pours into my soul,
A fire ignites and the cobwebs are burned away.
The furnace groans as it remembers its purpose.
The light in my eyes returns.

Give me a direction;
A purpose for the flame inside.
Alone in the darkness my flame is futile.
Bring close the cold so they may be warm;
So they too may be renewed.