WAVING you ask me what makes anger you ask me why we rage you ask me how to kill a fire or turn another page you ask me what makes lightning strike or why the rain brings flood what burns a nation down to sand why war spills so much blood and just for a moment I thought you saw me wave but you were looking the other way you ask me how I taught myself to turn the force around look fear and anger in the eyes and turn it into sound you ask if I can ride the wave of dangerous emotion and if bitter disappointments are the measure of my passion and just for a moment I thought I caught your eye but you were turning the other way when you were a young one you took the road you wanted you didn't live to compromise you took the world in with your eyes and cut your portion down to size and as you grew we always knew that you were not for turning but when you take this path in life remember that you light the fire you burn in