Brave the Flames

 

For the man a Bow View Manor

Larry

by: Savannah, Reegan, and Melody

 

 

You never know what you are going to get into.

They tell you nothing’s gonna change,

They say life is as boring as it can be,

Until it is not.

Born,

 married,

and adopted mans best of friends

Yet it lacked a little more

Adrenaline

Incentive

Until an old friend came around with just a little more than what was needed

A little bit of incentive

A little bit of adrenaline

A little bit of firefighting

And it was thrilling.

 

With firefighting, you never know what you are getting into

One day

a tame fiery kitten, easily subjected 

Or the next 

a roaring lion,

a flaming mane planting offspring like a parasite,

Greedily devouring houses,

even lives,

As you fall a floor 

down 

down 

Down

(it just caved, like a vacuum, 

sucking you down)

Today it’s a starving pack of wolves, 

They pop and crack as they shed their flaming fur,

devoured everything in sight.

On your back,

looking up,

the fiery wolves look down on you.

(your back was never the same)

 

Not all tales were so perilously grim

Sometimes the fire was lit from within 

Coursing through those hands which 

Wielded hoses  

Against scorching giants 

And it was a pleasure

To pacify the inferno

Cauterize its damage 

 

How could it not?

The fire was a dragon

And you got to be the knight 

And everyone knows the peak of excitement 

The climax

Is the dragon’s defeat

 

Whether it be defeating those fiery beasts

Or assisting the occasionally foolish 

(Walls, hands and crazy glue don’t stick well)

The mantra you’ve secured and passed through decades

Echoing clearly

(Make noise, Count heads, then call the department)

 

Of course

Living with the aches and pains all your bones have endured 

Isn’t much of a reward

 

But the lives you’ve saved

Can live in memory as well

(Now that’s better than the back pain any day)

 

 

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