As you Burn

I concede that you are not a terrorist

That you are a man of passion

Who happens to enjoy the sight of fireballs.

In the long dark of when it was simply a match

That burned down to the last

You only shook your fingers in the breeze.

When by accident a whole book of them was lit

You smiled and dropped it on a line of ants

Smelling the sweetly acrid whisps of smoke.

School may have taught you maths and geography

History did more than teach of a past

Glorious but lost in the arms of a beast.

A lunch time brought word of rebellion

Arms against the beast and no reply is heard

So a match is sparked within your breast.

Consider the holy words, day after day

Consider the shame of being kept from the true path

Consider the shame of being kept from spreading the Word.

Then the flame inside is fanned, the smell of burning insects

The beast must be burned, let out the word

Let the Word be the burning spear as of old.

All who fail to tremble before you

Must burn in shame and burn to quench your thirst

To once again stand tall as you burn.