Dancing Around the Core

What is the core of man
but a truthful, blazing light?
 
The most fear I've seen  
in the eyes of anyone  

With my mirror flames
Within
 
confronted  by the  
abandoned blaze  
within their minds
 
Feeling sure to be burned down
chase me away
with pitchforks and pine torches
for showing them  
what they already knew was there
 
Yet now I see that I myself
am coward
Still! Though I swear  
I'll fight this  
 
I won't abandon my fellow cowards
as angel near
I'll hold them in my gentle sway
 
And remind them to  
love that inner flame