Learn Or Burn

Like a magnet for repair, despair can demand our care.
Like a call to a higher ground, a crisis’ scream can sound.
Like fuel for a warm embrace, can be a lonely tear strewn face.
Moonshine at sundown, dreams done by sunrise.

The cause for our concern can present the chance to learn or burn.
Like if the things we don’t want at all are the reasons that we stood so tall,
Or the things that some want most can just turn their souls to a ghost.
To learn or burn to learn or burn.

Like the drugs that they thought they’d love that just haunted them through the night.
Like that one last one night stand that just left them in a doctor’s hands.
Like opposites that detract, with the facts you wish you could subtract.
Moonshine at sundown, dreams done by sunrise.

The cause for our concern can present the chance to learn or burn.
Like if the things we don’t want at all are the reasons that we stood so tall,
Or the things that some want most can just turn their souls to a ghost.
To learn or burn to learn or burn.