White Man’s Burden

[Todd]

This is a difficult title to live up to giving Kipling's poem. It probably detracts too much from your content. Well to the content:

The white man is born in fire,--I took this fire to mean passion and also limited in duration, as a fire consumes. I fail to see why this is limited to the white. You seem to be discussing Christians. So, maybe it's their burden.
That’s why he thinks of Heaven.--because he sees how finite life is.
God is a cold kind of love;--I like this line a lot, it's an interesting way to depict not only the type of love but the type of comfort derived from it.

It doesn’t traffic in vicious cycles.--nice reference to reincarnation
One man, in one progressive lifetime--progressive is a great word.
That fans himself till death
With the breath of the forgotten roles--I think you extend this out well. I like the fanning reference back to the heat. I don't think you need the

He steals.
Counting his money, he sings.--didn't follow your transition from this strophe. To the end.

Some crazy stuff goes down
But that’s the planet’s fault.
It’s gravity, questions itself.

Just some thoughts.