To Where Fires Cannot Feed

We throw ourselves, Like rocks against the heavens To call to us - attention, And set our sites for higher ground Weaved within the nervous system, Of the blood to devote We keep the dormant fragments, Of self destructive code Into the emptiness Where fires cannot feed No way to hold A burden of another name We gnaw at each other From across the opening grave And go to memories To visit our own lives You carry my life Inside you, My only witness We hide in the bodies of greater beings Together as one, Through endless trials Into the emptiness, Where fires cannot feed No way to hold The burden of life, alive