It isn't true the story about humans discovering the fire
by hitting two stones.
The fire peered differently
when the headmost man's aloneness
bumped against the first question
when a man thought of turning his wounds into hope
to lighten his hands
and the fright of himself.
Maybe fire was nothing but an aid to fight against the ashes
when the scavengers alight upon our-inner-selves
and we agonize.