Wednesday 30 July 2008

Reflective Heat

It's a little more than warm; as she reads these words
from someone so very similar
She is further down his twisted path
with the realisation that it is not significant
That is the point when he will envisage her fire
When crash and burn becomes real and harsh (and hot!)
The egocentric flow becomes an ebb
amidst rivers of virulent and impossible flame
She doesn't want to dampen this heat, only temper
It damages her thoroughly, a text book case of hives
A physician could take the red from her skin
and return it to normality; a cool spark
Slow burning embers breathing with frequency
and not; as she dares stay still, shadowed and silent
Cutting them all out, as the doctor would
a self-administered preparation; as required
Pain is numbed in the extinguishing of the inferno.

~ Copyright Charlotte Sometimes (SRWB) 2008

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