Passion, Like a House on Fire

Passion like a house on fire

Burning with intense desire

Desire like a desert thirst

In you I have become immersed

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Immersed in voracious hunger

A yearning fierce, strong as thunder

Thunder with a crashing boom

Lightning flashes across the room

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Room for you here inside my heart

From you dear love, I’d never part

Part of my soul can now be yours

The want for you, felt in my core

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Core of my body is so weak

When you open your mouth and speak

Speak to all of my wants and needs

Inviting words, the desire feeds

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Feeds new blood to my drying veins

A gushing river of warmth sustained

Sustained for all eternity

My love for you, your love for me

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Me, lying in your strong arms

Smitten, succumbing to your charms

Charms, like an old golden ingot

Never to own since I have been cut

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Cut by a cold damaged heart

Whose cruelty pierced like a dart

Dart hurriedly from the room

Leaving you standing all alone

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Alone to wonder what went wrong

And why I know I don’t belong

Belong here with this fine man

Who makes me feel brand new again

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Again, just for a blink in time

I had all the words, all the rhymes

Rhymes from a heavenly choir

Healing psalms meant to inspire

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Inspire like cooing mourning doves

Potential there to find true love

Love, like a bird on a wire

Too far to touch, there to admire

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Admire like sunset on a beach

At the time when the horizon is breached

Breach the fathom that lies in between

You and me that cannot be seen

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Seen like the beauty that you exude

How I wish that I felt beautiful too