The fire in the eyes,
that’s what she called it,
a friend of long ago
who saw the small boy
defy the argument
and the pre-stated life,
only good enough to take a bullet
for Queen and Country,
she said that assertion was wrong;
the devastating and smouldering
inferno she saw beneath the blue
drops of water told her different;
she said you were an explosion
waiting to happen,
a volcano on the edge of an abyss
on the edge of Time whose wake