To one I love with all your fire and passion

Dear b,

I think you are beautiful like a flame

mustered up from the breath of this world

the heat rising and the fuel residing 

to create the intangible light that you are

you’re the sun captured in a glimpse 

of oranges and yellows 

all summed up at a flick

of a finger waiting for you

to light up their desires 

of a cigarette or a fire

Simple beauty with the fear 

of what you’ve been named

to the destruction of this world

to the creation that you’ve made

the warmth that you hold;

the flame you engage.