Short Enflames Poems

How to endure
This infatuation 

When the touch of your hand
Is crucifixion 

And every glance
Enflames my soul

Yet better this than a 
Conflagration 

And all hope’s embers
Growing cold.

Steve W, 2019...

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Throughout the outer cosmos you will find
ghosts leaving interstellar gas behind.
That is to say a galaxy remains,
where pompous, excess energy enflames
a slight shiver of the cold, viscous kind....

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Sensibility defined by loving emotions,

Thy love blossoms between two souls,

Rewarding both with a red hot hue,

Over the years, the magic begins to fade,

Neither's heart is in the right space,

Growing apart after thy love etiolated,

Hurtful feelings burn in the lover's mindful place,

Emotion enflames them with a life of waste,

Always hurt and stabbed, thy strength of love fades,

Removing their pain with anothers embrace,

The heart is always stronger after love has been displaced....

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