Jump into The Fire

If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have only myself to blame. - Thoreau

in my terry cloth robe

in a situation dire

they called me a liar

they said i hadn't enough faith

so i proved them wrong

leaping not just over the fray

but jumping into the fire

Author's Note

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success." - Thoreau