Inferno

may 6th, 2018

I found your heart in a burning pile
In the soft, sparkling snow of the new year.

Reaching into the flames, I made you mine.
Sinking my my talons deep,
deep into your ventricles
I drew your blood into my own veins.
My stagnant heart, fueled by yours, began beating.

I used to lie;
tell people they were special.
“I’ve never felt like this before,” I would say
and they would believe me.

Why wouldn’t they?
I believed me.

But you.
Oh, you…
I found your heart and before I could break it,
before I could drain your blood onto the sidewalk
in a pool with the rest,
you took my hand.

I couldn’t let it go.

For years,
I swore I was done for.

I swore I would burn in hell.
Alone.

That I would die.
Alone.

I swore I would never love anyone
as much as I find I now love you.

My fingers flicker with tongues of white hot flame,
known to sear the mark of Cain
onto those who dare to touch me.

Against all odds, your tender skin is fireproof.
A marvel unbeknownst to my chaotic identity.
I freeze in time.
What happens now?

I’ve always feared my ability to destroy,
but you tamed the beast inside me,
and I suddenly yearn to create.

I want to create a new world with you.
A world worth living in,
invigorating my fire to warm the freezing,
not to burn those
who already cry.

We melted a hole in the January snow
together
with the fire I stole from your heart,
and try as they might,
all my tears cannot douse that inferno.

My fire still burns.

Oh, forever,
my wild darling,
my fire will keep burning.
But I do not fear it now.

I will not douse the fire of who I am,
of who I always will be.

So let us unite in a love unheard of,
dancing forever
in the flames of who we are

* back to drops *