As the bagpipe builds
  And the drone begins
  The fireman's son remembers.
  
  The language of life saving. 
  The schoolyard pride in parentage.
  The sorrow, half sensed, for the life lost nonetheless...
  
  The family, extended, 
  To Christmas and camping.
  Co-workers connected, their kids more like cousins.
  
  The sage smells like heaven as
  The sun 
  Goes down
  On Joshua Tree.
    

 
