A burned child loves the fire

A burned child adores the heat

A burned child adores the pain

But we learn it's not normal to love it

We slowly begin to fear it if we're lucky

But I, I still heed your flame

I still love the flames licking my body while my tears slowly turn into little puddles of salt and ash

I still want your heat

I'm not afraid nor will I ever be

And the pain, the pain makes it all worth it

Slicing through your skin as a blade

it slowly eats up your sorrows and leaves behind an empty puddle of hollowness

I'll blindly follow the fire

It'll burn me

But it'll bring me back home

Because the fire is home

And you are still the heat

You are the pain

You are the fear

So when I'm ready I'll find my strength to find another pain to kill my heart and torment my soul but for now it's only you