Pile my sins up over that fire,
and singe the sins you find most soft.
Though I'll not hop upon your pyre,
but sin the sin I sinned most oft.
Burn me like an old, wooden toy,
but I'll spark to ignite your cuff.
For I'm no less the mischievous boy
then before my first skin sloughed.
And when your fire fades to embers,
glowing amid the cold, gray dust,
I hope you're able to remember
what made your little fire combust.
T'was not me who engaged the flame,
for mine isn't a dry kind of shame.
