Why Add Fuel To The Fire?

Let’s Do What We Can Before Our World Expires

Danielle Elizabeth Andrews
8 min readSep 25, 2023
Photo by Adam Kring on Unsplash

We’re going to take a walk back in time
Through all that’s happened since Billy said “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”
He wasn’t a liar when he said they didn’t light this fire.
But it does continue to burn on, and on, and on…

In 1990 — Nelson’s freed, Hubble Space, George H.W.,
Ghost and Home Alone.
Mariah has her debut.
Persian and the Gulf Wars, Human Genome.

’91 — Apartheid, Warsaw Pact, and the USSR ended this year.
Dr Suess. Boris Yeltsin. Gulf War Oil Spill.
AOL is here!

’92 — Aladdin and The Bodyguard. Desert Storm, Dr. Dre.
John Gotti finally put away.
The police beat Rodney King.
Acquittal and the L.A. Riots.
Listen to “L.A.P.D” by The Offspring.

As Billy said, “We didn’t start the fire…”
We’re trying to fight it, but at times we tire.
Corrupt politicians slide a bill through to strengthen their positions.
Arrogance, ambition, a lack of integrity,
These are the only prerequisites they need.
Then, they embark on a…

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Danielle Elizabeth Andrews

An avid reader who also loves writing about all sorts of things (Life, love, family, books, poetry, the world around us)