Burning Love
I was an origami swan
Carefully crafted from the thinnest of papers,
Fragile and frail and vulnerable
And you were a brazen flame
Glowing and radiant and bold
And the problem with our love wasn’t the fact that i was paper or that you were a flame,
It was just the indisputable fact
That fire and paper cannot coexist
-e.g.
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