Tuesday, September 15, 2009

THE FIRE WITHIN

There are times when I feel

I have a fire within my breast

so hot it could consume

a world – a universe.



The flames, it seems,

could dance forth from my eyes

and no one could resist me.

For my fire would find

its mate in theirs

and all the bland excuses

would be burnt to ash.



At times, I am convinced

that all this fat I’ve built around me

is to hide this flame

from those who would

prefer to put it out.

But protection keeps it hidden,

is a suffocating prison

just as surely as those structures

society’s firefighters

build to suppress

such overwhelming brilliance.



And so a question rises

within my seething mind

Shall I break down the defenses,

drive the firefighters away,

and with a roar of passion

and a tiger’s gaze of lust,

unleash this raging firestorm

that might burn a whole world down?

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