This Fire - Richard Walters

This fire starts

Wherever you are

Then questions get out

This smoke climbs

From where you’re standing

And people will talk

And you leave me

In the middle of it

And you leave me alone

And I can’t stand the heat no more

And I can hardly breathe

And I can’t stand so close to this fire

These sparks fly

Whenever you speak

And fools captured light

If you don’t fight

And we don’t try

And you leave me

In the middle of it

And you leave me alone

And I can’t stand the heat no more

And I can hardly breathe

And I can’t stand so close to this fire today

To this fire