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Playing With Fire

April 24, 2012
By Austin_9k SILVER, Westminster, Maryland
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Austin_9k SILVER, Westminster, Maryland
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Favorite Quote:
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
~Thoreau~

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We’ll light the world on fire
And teach them how to cry
We’ll light the world on fire
And teach them how to die
In a world so troubled
We’ll set them all aside
We’ll light the world on fire
And open up their eyes

© Nick C., Boca Raton, FL

The author's comments:
I wrote this as a decleration, demanding that we as a society must realize that we are killing ourselves. We light our own worlds on fire(pollution, corruption, genocide, etc.), then cry about it, and eventually die from it. This is simply a declaration that we must do something about it, or it will be our own demise.
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