What Once Burned

what once burned hot on a spring night dwindles, extinguished like a tallow's light nothing to sustain, nothing to hold as it all fades away into afterglow what once held dreams in sleepless arms a kiss of a lover with all of its charms hangs heavy and weightless in a darkened room the fragrance remaining from its musky perfume what once played on a mountain breeze a love song lilting through mesquite trees evanesce gone like the lyrics sung over too soon, never begun