light the fire - working title

-- jchris, 10/02/2005

help me light the fire

(we can change the world)

running from tomorrow

dancing into darkness

come with me

we’ll make the way

cast down your doubt

alongside your fear

destroy them, release yourself

now, forever

run with me

we’re almost there

if we falter

we’ll be returned to our cages

our matchbook lives

of chrome and glass

we must not fail-

our fate is worse than

our troubled lives before

(can you fathom it?)

light the fire

give shadows cause for fear

hope is our only escape

from your fears

our reality

run with me

we’re almost home

what waits is a bliss

beyond our mortal dreams

and should our hopes turn to lies

we remain better off dead

than returning to our lives

shrouded in fears and darkness

come with me

light the way

we will change the world

we must-

it is the only way

we could face our children

to not stare into

deep, brown eyes

and lose words to describe

the day our fear took hold

and hope left our hearts

run with me

our dreams demand it

our children deserve it

we have no choice

we must run

come with me

we’ll find the way

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I've worked through some of the images/thoughts presented here, but in no way is it comprehensive or thorough and it's certainly not all the images you're dealing with. I've, sort of, explicated moments of inevitability and then built the bones of a poem around that. I know that's not what you're doing here, really, but perhaps it will shed some light or give you some ideas as to what you might use to thicken / concretize this poem (if you decide you want to). Anyway, I put it up @ light the fire RF attempts.--RFRY