Fire shadows me
throwing shade
fire shadows me
*
I feel her splinters
crackle and hiss,
her burning embers
giving voice to
darkness
*
fire
dances
within,
my second skin
*
she illuminates
what I cannot,
taunting light
throwing
shade
*
should I
give in,
give life
to sin
*
it would be
easy
to appease these
desperate desires,
to release
myself
to fire
*
I am hers
for the hire
*
I try
to deny
her
hold on me
*
her touch
burdens me
with
pleasure,
my torch
her ember
*
shamed
I saunter on,
a liar
licking at her skirt,
squirming
through
rebirth
*
rapture:
ash and soot
*
I
yearn
to surface
*
find me
licking my wounds
***
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Comments (3)
At the risk of sounding dumb, what is a magnet poetry kit? 😅 I loved your poem so much!
I can see that - constraint and freedom. It's kind of the matter at hand isn't it.
I don't know how this spilled out; it fell perfectly into place!