That Fleeting Feel Of Fire

That Fleeting Feel Of Fire

The first skater of winter
The risk reward of youth
What wisdom would consider
A spirit breaking strewth

Your ode to a fair maiden
That may just break your heart
Be damned your fear not bolden
Life is miming love for art

Ohhhh to think you're winning
That fleeting feel of fire
You couldn't see it coming
The stiff drink of desire

When common sense lacks clout
Fools and knaves are certain
The wise so full of doubt
Just clowns behind the curtain

Hark talking heads they crow
Their confident conceit
With every dime in tow
And scruples of deceit

Ohhhh they think they're winning
That fleeting feel of fire
They couldn't see it coming
The stiff drink of desire

The surety of certainty
Is falling on your face
The gravity of vanity
This self-love losing race

From the arrogance of sure
It's certainty, it's man
That fights with tooth and claw
From what seems like time began

Ohhhh to think of winning
That fleeting feel of fire
They denied it was coming
The stiff drink of desire

To cross the hill of hubris
Is to doubt and question all
To fall on mistakes kiss
And find your true life's call

Now fathom out your future
And face your murky past
The present's now your tutor
As time looks on aghast

Ohhhh am I really winning
That fleeting feel of fire
Ripened I see it coming
The spice of sweet desire

"That Fleeting Feel Of Fire" - My Inspiration

No one is too good to fail. We all make mistakes.
This is a poem about acceptance and recognition of our failings being key to moving onto a mindset of questioning everything. Unfortunately the science of reason seems sadly lacking in todays world.

A case in point that still rings true today is the Bertrand Russell line, from his 1933 essay 'Stupidity Rules':

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.".

MJF

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