your love flickers
through my heart
its sweet simplicity
brings tears to my mind
your warm glow
engulfs me
in happiness and hope.
Passion becomes
a raging inferno
coursing through my veins
pulsing my body
as I roll with you
making my heart continue beating
as we make love
kissing as one
then serparating
like two flames
on one log.
I don't worry about
getting burned
I don't watch out
for the smoke.
But your beauty dims
and I choke
on the smothering gray mess
you left behind
My parched soul
cries out
for a watery relief
The dying embers
of my being
begin to grow cold
and they crackle
wrenching dry sobs
from the ashes.
I wrap my scorched arms
around myself
and lie alone
with the fire.

~(\o/)