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.
Copyright © Ara Belle | Year Posted 2014
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