Fire

Fire - Second Person

I used to play with matches

When I was very small

Legends of wolves and witches

I memorised them all

So many nasty stitches

So many jagged blades

I tidied up the pieces

I tried to mend my ways

But he came right out of nowhere

Like an unfamiliar tune

Sat down upon my armchair

And opened up my wounds

I put up no resistance

So insistent was desire

But one of my addictions is

I used to play with fire

Do you

Do you have a light

Do you have the time of day

Would you

Would you save a life

If you had a life to save

How sweetly we collided

Just like two meteors

For days he did as I did

Mixed drinks and metaphors

Oh so much phosphorescence

We added spark to spark

I should have learnt my lesson

Already broke my heart

And I said

Do you

Do you have a light

Do you have the time of day

Would you

Lend your light to mine

Do you want to come and play

I engineered the chaos

I burnt the fortress down

Who knew about the lives lost

Who took a body count

In my act of supplication

I asked him for his help

But I was an imposition

I had to ask myself

I had to ask myself

Do you

Do you have a light

Do you have the time of day

Would you

Would you save a life

If you had a life to save

To save