Fire

What is this fire
you hold in your hand?
Do you understand
the danger it brings?
You smile as you wave it
for all to see.
Do you really think that
you are in control?

This is no marionette,
no boy on a string.
You hold the very stick
that the flame will consume.
Must you be burned
time and again?
Why can't you learn
from all you have seen?

05.03.1998