Start the fire - Higher, higher!   
   That's the word the dead will hear   
   That the World, Complete, Entire,   
   Is Entitled to revere -   
      
   Start the fire - let it simmer   
   Let it singe the wooden branches,   
   Let the sparks above it shimmer   
   And reach out to all man's natures,   
      
   As they burn - no intervention   
   Burning freely, bravely, truly,   
   Burn the darkness of convention   
   And inspire the living fully,   
      
   Burn, O bonfire! Burn completely   
   Leave no trace of loss and sorrow   
   Burn in love and indiscreetly   
   Flare the past, light up tomorrow   
      
   And keep burning into Now   
   Till the moment is a Fire   
   And all in it starts to Glow;   
   Fire, keep burning - Higher, Higher -   
      
   That's the word the dead will hear   
   That's the word known to the living   
   Who have vanquished all the fear   
   And thus overcame Deceiving:   
      
   Tell me, fire, spare not my feelings,   
   How do I appear beside you?   
   Will the truth you be revealing   
   If I put my arm inside you?   
      
   Will it burn or become vapor?   
   Will I hold or scream in pain?   
   Will it light up like white paper   
   Or be drenched in soothing rain?   
      
   I am burning, I am burning;   
   And through passion made by fire,   
   In the fire the truth discerning,   
   I Alight, Complete, Entire -   
      
   Blue and red and orange-yellow   
   Flames are reaching all around me,   
   Blazing fire, screaming shadows -   
   Do you seek now to astound me?   
      
   Do you know what you are facing?   
   Do I know who, what, made you?   
   From what unbeknownst places   
   Did you come - where going to?   
      
   All the things I ever wanted   
   Came to me before I chose them,   
   And their memories are haunting,   
   And are cutting like a rose stem,   
      
   But the rose is worth the prickles   
   And the warmth is worth the pain   
   And though blood from my mouth trickles   
   I would do it all again.   
      
   I would burn like I am burning   
   I would yearn like I have yearned,   
   Staying fiery, never learning   
   Lessons not worth being learned:   
      
   But inspired with life's essence   
   Through unbridled Love's embrace   
   See through all of man's false lessons   
   And burn them without a trace   
      
   And then reach into the soul   
   And there feel light from the heart   
   And discern the timeless whole   
   As reflected in each part -   
      
   Which in plasma come together   
   Like electrons' quantum rings   
   In which lives key to Forever   
   And the truth from which it springs -   
      
   And inside it I'll be burning   
   With the essence of each minute:   
   Know what Truth is worth discerning?   
   Look at Fire - I am in it!   
      
   And in fire, where I am standing,   
   I'll send Light into the world,   
   That its life be never-ending   
   And the Living hear my Word.   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)