IT'S ALWAYS BURNING

Introduction: One of the basic elements of life, fire spawns imagination with its all consuming force.  It doesn't matter who or what starts it, but once it sparks, a fire burns without pause and this poem is about using fire as an experiment in allegory

Fire

always burning

it's always burning

with quiet rage or screaming rampage

within closed doors or the wide outdoors

threading reality with fantasy

consuming appetite, insatiable ferocity

renewing resurgence

exacting vengeance

arriving with or without invitation

cleansing purity or accusing damnation

Fire

always churning

it's always churning

in minds of scientists and poets

in press statements or verses of eloquence

heaven's wrath or hell's inferno

slow lava from a sudden volcano

embers smouldering, hiding in ash

candle light on a soft eyelash

the scented bouquet of romance

the exotic aroma of trance

spreading cheer around a blaze

hot toddy on winter days

Fire

always blazing

it's always blazing

I'm sorry did I say fire

I meant desire

but what's in a name

they function the same

licking the borders of temptation

pouring courage into hesitation

a spark, all consuming

a burst of perfume alluring

there's no smoke without a fire
or you may call it desire
for life fulfilled in living

it's always burning

always burning

burning

- We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel