Containment

What percent would you claim to have control,

Over the embers and flames of a soul?

Have you looked over the terrain?

Can you foresee where this will go?

What is the forecast; can we hope for some rain?

Obtain wind direction and how hard it blows

Where can we gain just a bit more time?

What is the biomass of the fuel; where is the fireline?

Have you identified safety zones and escape routes?

And, most importantly, have you made them all known?

Do you remember your Orders and Watchouts?

What tactics are the best fit for this particular zone?

How about a dozer line and some controlled burns?

How much can our lookouts see in this haze?

Where is the best place for the Anchor Point?

How about some air attack to make the effort joint?

Drop the water and retardant to make a firebreak

I advise a backburn in this particular case, with haste!

We must get ahead of the churning column

And the fiery fingers of this formidable beast

Grab the drip torch and let us unleash!

Fighting fire with fire to get in there and take the inferno

She instructs, yet, it is like a stumbling stone

Down right into love, so how am I free?

I was in daylight, but now in a dark country

She reaches into the boy and draws out a man

So, will You rattle her back to me as only You can?

I'm learning that knowing one is in love

Is just not enough, though, I never knew what it was

Up until recently, and it flared up so suddenly

After only a few tugs, something like a hit of hard drugs

But, what if I know and work out that love,

Would this make reciprocation obligatory?

She lights me like some primal fire, roaring

Alighting on the pinnacle of my mind's ideal

And I just had to show my teeth for some relief

And it worked well, as she fled, though I second guess

So, how long can we go with these ragged breaths?

Can we deploy our shelters in time or will it be death?