By Pepper
Date: 2001 Oct 15
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Cowardly Fire

You have caused a thousand tears
None of happiness
A love nearly tumbled

Our strength comes from emotion
Fortunately pain is one
And hope is another

Your false embrace
Filled with deception
and treacherous promises
Just made us stronger
We carry on like a redwood after a hailstorm of fire
The gods screamed!  The earth tried as it could
to swallow our timber!  but wait... ... ...  

Our foundation
was greater than that of the redwood
Cut me down, cut her off as you may
We grow stronger together
Welcoming the rain and the sun
as it warms us back to life

And your thunderclouds can go back
to the swamp from which they came
like the coward they are