And who by fire, who by water
Who in the sunshine, who in the night time
Who by high ordeal, who by common trial
Who in your merry month of May
Who by very slow decay
and who shall I say is calling?
– Leonard Cohen
A meditation on peace & pyrotechnics.
We don’t know
When
Or where
Humans started building
Fires;
As with all things
Primordial,
There are disputes.
The truth
Is new
And counterintuitive.
But trust me –
You can trust me –
IN A WORLD ON FIRE,
STOP BURNING THINGS.
words supplied in a somewhat different sequence from an essay by Bill McKibbon.
The New Yorker 3/14/2022
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things