Rising From the Ashes

In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning, I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high, glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze that carried your jasmine fragrance to me. The dawn splashed the spectrum of ecstasy, blossomed the budding euphoric dreams in the domain of depthless desire, I didn’t see clouds slither in the slate horizon. In the stream of night the specks of darkness slid, in its flood my longing essence sank. I couldn’t hold on to your hands as before, for you freed yourself from my eager embrace. Splintered in the threshold of tarnished twilight, in the vortex of turmoil I saw the debris of me disappear with my dreams in the stormy night. Demolished, I was sucked into its virulent void. Emotion engulfed by raging sense of consternation bewildered me by the flight of fight option, I submerged immobile in the state of stasis, while the freeze response shriveled my mind. Expectations unfulfilled hit me hard, promises unkept flung fiery blows of torment. My mangled mind caught fire of the wild, blazed the tender time of endurance. The flame flowed from my burning mind, singed the sensual meadow my love had made, as my heart morphed into a volcanic inferno, erupted fuming lava called anger. Through the billowing smoke thick and blinding, I came out of the ruins, saw the beauty life was. Before my ember conscience burnt the soul, I rose from the ashes, self-consoled and sane.