Fire Safety<\/u><\/p>\n
What one thing would I save<\/p>\n
If my home, my house<\/p>\n
Was completely engulfed in flames?<\/p>\n
I want to say my Memaw\u2019s Bible:<\/p>\n
Her copy of King James.<\/p>\n
But her voice<\/p>\n
It calls to me,<\/p>\n
And the modesty, that I keep quietly locked inside of me,<\/p>\n
Keeps telling me,<\/p>\n
This<\/p>\n
That I\u2019m telling you,<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s<\/p>\n
Compelling me,<\/p>\n
To tell the truth,<\/p>\n
And so<\/p>\n
Honestly,<\/p>\n
Depending inherently on the severity,<\/p>\n
Or if I<\/p>\n
Would even feel inclined\u2026<\/p>\n
Go running back inside<\/p>\n
My fiery house for anything\u2026<\/p>\n
Because<\/p>\n
If I went in there and died,<\/p>\n
Then where would I be?<\/p>\n
I hear dead is not as glamorous as they make it seem<\/p>\n
On the radio box or on<\/p>\n
The movie screen.<\/p>\n
Yeah,<\/p>\n
There were all those nice people<\/p>\n
Who attended my wake<\/p>\n
And the others who came<\/p>\n
And said goodbye to me, at my grave<\/p>\n
And yeah,<\/p>\n
There\u2019s that pretty rock that they had carved<\/p>\n
For all to see,<\/p>\n
Telling the world of my vanity<\/p>\n
And the bane of being a sex-symbol at the young age of 23.<\/p>\n
But then, after that,<\/p>\n
When they\u2019re all gone I\u2019ll be<\/p>\n
Left to spend the rest of time alone<\/p>\n
Reciting lines<\/p>\n
From my long forgotten eulogy.<\/p>\n
So If I<\/p>\n
Am to be honest,<\/p>\n
And in lieu of sounding vain,<\/p>\n
I would<\/p>\n
Accept the things in life<\/p>\n
I cannot change,<\/p>\n
Letting what burns<\/p>\n
Burn,<\/p>\n
And keeping only<\/p>\n
That which may or may not<\/p>\n
Remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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