We may keep the home fire burning,
or we may burn the house down;
we may stay home, burning inwardly,
or we may take off in a conflagration
of self-assertion. We watch the fires
of destruction, of desire, and of
ambition, and wonder what we can
risk, and what we might gain.
LAUREN ELKIN, Flâneuse
Like fire that burns the field, prepares
it for crops, let the mind be seared by
failure into readiness.