Sparks crackle and fly
And tinder erupts and burns

You're already ablaze, boy
Through pain the body learns

Smoke suffocates the senses,
As reason turns to ash

Everything is up in flames
"It all moves so fast"

At last it's all charred,
The trees, the leaves, the grass

Now the taste of acrid failure
The singe of searing shame

But you'll build another fire:
You shy not from the flame