Baptism By Fire

I have a will to survive  
And my will is supposedly free    
But nothing  in life comes free  
So is there a cost to survival?  
 
Many view a person’s ability  
to walk through the fires of life  
as a sign of strength.  
 
Maybe that’s true  
when you encounter  
just a few fires  
on your journey through life’s terrain.  
 
But when you spend most of your life  
dancing through the flames,  
It’s not about strength anymore.  
 
It’s more like the heavens  
are vigilantly watching you  
gracefully frolic  
across the surface of hell,  
Patiently waiting  
to see if you’ll come out  
with horns or wings