Melting Fire

Photo by David Kaloczi on Unsplash

Written July 19, 2012

And again each time

I feel that gaze

I'll know and remember

A tainted sky

The perverse lovers

That graced its walls

I'll know and remember

The way you looked

And then the way

You looked away

I'll know and remember

Shards of pain

Starburst inside me

Every time I draw a breath/ Shaky 

Like glass figurines in the dark/ Eager 

To play/ To dance

On the brink

Of a chaotic world

A while since you've been gone

Your face lingering

In the days we avoid/ Glaring 

At forbidden corners of the world

Tendrils that reach out at night

I'll know and remember

Covering my thoughts

In a blanket of you

Walking down a path covered 

In snow that tucks itself 

In behind my foot steps and 

We're almost at the bridge

Over it even as we speak

I'll know and remember

Turning back for one last look

Before I bend down/ And set

My light to inflammable footsteps of snow

I'd walk away

As though trapped

In a slow motion reel

As a light within begins to burn

Catching fire with the rest

Breaking me into a run

'Cause I remember and cannot bear

Another minute of the pain

One last time

The freedom to cry

For anything else