Playing with Fire

I’ve always loved to play with fire

Strike a match and watch it burn down to my thumb and index finger

Watching the hues of red and blue

Then flicking my wrist and tossing it away without a care

So don’t pretend when I touch you here and there

That you were unaware of my affinity to watch it all burn in your flames

Give me all of the smoke

Make me choke

Then douse me with your hose

Then I’ll rest and won’t resist

The rest of your love

And I know this is nonsense

Because you can’t understand

How I love to hold the flames

In the palm of my hand

I can

And I see all of my years in the flame

It will burn me one day

But for tonight, it calls my name