Where Frozen Ember Still Burn

For I cannot look straight into your eyes Or you will know I’m lying. I’m churning. Scared that my eyes will give it all away In the cover of friendship I’m hiding. Silently true, I have forgotten you A familiar lovesong. From long ago. For if there’s no fuel, the fire dies out But deep in my heart there’s an ember of you. It’s a masquerade game that I’m playing You and me. In this lifetime it can never be. You stood right there for everyone to see And there was me, wanting to cross the boundary. With heart heavy I had to run away. Suddenly. Or your presence will burn me. Completely. There only from where no one would e’er see I’ll let the frozen ember from my heart consume me.