The Mystery Of The Fires

Would you not have given it your best

In exchange for the sweetest of sorrows true

Inside our longing souls comes the desire for the flame

We hold our hands over, knowing not what else to do

We walk into the fires of Hades knowing they are there

Were it to be any other way then we'd know not the sweetest of it all

And we never regret going into the dancing flame until too late

Instead of remembering the motivations that come from within

Wallowing in the pity of our involuntary mistake

But would we have it any other way

Be true to yourself and admit that you'd enter the fires with eyes opened widely

And do so knowing that so many who tried before were forever burned

For the dance with the fires of this desire would consume the very soul

Causing your forgetting that this was the thing for which you yearned

Thus you jumped in despite the warnings so plentiful

You were not one to heed the advice of those who knew

That it was the devil with which you were playing

And cost you a piece of all that is you

But you'd have done it all anyway

Because you gave that which matters most your best shot

In the mystery of what lies beyond conquering the fires

The fires forever burned

After the fires

Love's fire still burns

You'll enter the fire, because it's for what we yearn