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.
