Cremains

Open the furnace, peer in and see
Devouring fire playing on an image of mortality
Blue burning gas, slow body reduction
Bones twist and split, skeletal explosion
Cremains remain
Sightless eyes gaze upwards
To where a hole exhumes the plume of fine grey smoke
The burning chamber, a gloomy recess
With hidden gas nozzles in black sunken holes
Cremains remain
Organic components
Destroyed
Carbonized
Charred
Burned away
Complete combustion
Incinerated
Crushed
A pile of ash
Pulverized mass
Cool and silent
Remnants
Reduced to powder
Morbid dust
Just cremains
Remain
Cremains remain