As destructive as life,
As healing as death;
An institutioner of strife,
Just as prone to bless.
It is all that is good,
Yet with an evil trend;
As it was the beginning of things,
It can also be the end.

I don't see how fire fits completely here.

I'd suggest reading it in a more "vivid" mode. I think at something related with drugs (or smoking heavy things).

Drogadicts can see drugs in a similar way, I suppose.

Posted by armando on 2006-10-02 11:32:38