Burning Embers

Burning embers flicker like fireflies Aimlessly buzzing the night skies Beautiful hands of flame Reach out to caress all that is within reach Intimately embracing tree and shrub With molten hot arms Kissing flowers and licking grass With its searing tongue and fiery lips As it breathes its scorching breath Of loneliness and desire Into the noxious smoke filled air. Charred remains Are left smoldering and lifeless In the wake of a ravenous appetite For passion and closeness That it can never feel But greedily engulfing and devouring Everything in its desire to be held close, Until it has consumed everything Including the life giving air needed to sustain it Reducing it to a single starving flame That is finally put out of its misery By a merciful last breath Of a dying wind.