Anger is a fire that consumes the body and mind It sits and waits, fed by grudges left behind Coursing through your veins like a poison of the soul Dismissing all rationality and sense of self-control Like a blanket woven by corruption and fear It blinds what we see and alters what we hear Until all is contorted, withered and bleak Because what has taken over has made you weak Until, like a disease, it spreads from victim to victim A thing so dark it is certainly quite fearsome The spawn of destruction, sadness and terror Conjured from darkness of the human error We must forgive to forget and repent And retrieve ourselves that, from anger, is bent And from the fire, the flames lick at the roof of your mouth And threatens to burn so you let it spill out A pyromaniac of your own hatred and loathing That all but leaves you heaving and choking And so from ashes to ashes and dust to dust Forget bitter anger, for it is a thing we cannot trust