Can you keep up your lonely fight
to keep alive that one small light?
For you too felt that needed call,
to give your best and then stand tall.
But, alas, along the way
the winds can make your light to sway.

If those winds blow cold,
as winds are known to do,
your light may soon begin to turn
from red to faded blue.

Candle flames are fragile things
that can't withstand repeated stings
of cold, sharp breezes,
nor constant freezes.

Bright new flames can't be expected
to keep on burning when not respected.
Be careful winds for what you be,
that flame you doused was a fellow EMT.

DLS - Copyright 1999

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"Standing Outside The Fire"