Love And Flames

The smoke alarm is going off
I really should get going
But there is an attractive thought
That I think is worth knowing

There is no indecision here
If I stay I die
I wonder who'll be at the funeral
I wonder if any will cry

The door is open and so's the way
The path for me is clear
So why am I not leaping free?
It's nothing to do with fear

Quite the opposite in fact
It brings to my heart peace
Knowing how I'll go
When my breath will cease

A sense of urgency pervades
It's clogging up the air
Its demanding I should run
But I find I just don't care

I see the dancing shadows
Flames flickering on the staircase
I wondered when that would happen
When fire would show its face

Still I'm lacking motivation
It's hard to discover the will
No ones knows this way unlike
Me downing a bottle of pills

There isn't that much to it
I don't feel the survival urges
I've heard fire can purify
Your darkened soul it purges

Searing heat is rising now
Warming my bedroom floor
Thick acrid swirls of smoke
Are creeping under the door

I don't get how fire is pure
If everything is charred
Blackened further, burnt and sooty
Bodies blistered and scarred

Only if they aren't devoured
Wholeheartedly by the flames
If I listen close enough
It's whispering your names

The names of a family I don't have
I was robbed of the chance
When that rich man rolled up here
And caught you in a glance

He wanted you and you knew
Your passionate fire was kindled
Our blaze was already going strong
But in face of him, it dwindled

You were mine, with our child
But you chose him over me
So now I'm lethargic in the fire
It caresses me tenderly

Like you never used to do
Not after he stole your heart
I was crushed by your departure
Lust, it drove us apart

I lost my son before I knew it
He calls the rich guy dad
So now when the smoke fills my lungs
I sleep forever glad

Glad to be free of my life
So filled with misery
Fire has cleansed me from the earth
From heartbreak, I'm finally free!

I.Sparrow