Bonfires

Moses once stood near a burning bush 

Nero fiddled while Rome burned out 

The twin towers collapsed in a mighty rush 

'Cos there's plenty of arson about 

People like burning things just for fun 

The Brits razed the White House to the ground 

Books burned in Fahrenheit 451 

Yeah, there's plenty of arson around 

Wild fires and conflagrations 

Are hard to extinguish we've found 

Notre Dame's towers are belching smoke 

There's a truckload of arson around 

It's written in Samuel Pepys' diary 

That the Great Fire took days to burn out 

He said it was started by accident 

But there's still too much arson about 

Through the Armada, Drake's fireships tore 

The Dresden firestorm was a rout 

These fires were deliberate acts of war 

And there's far too much arson about 

Light the blue touch paper and retire, 

Fireworks make us gasp and shout 

Just don't be seduced by the bonfire 

'Cos there's far too much arson about 

Steve Wheeler © 28 October, 2020

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