Flames of Longing

Flames of longing

Burn me until my flesh melts off my bones

The Irish Coast. Image by author

and I’m nothing but dust in the wind

and a whisper in your mind

My desires were too much to ask for

so I went down to lake to drown them

one by one they left me

and I sat there wondering where everything went wrong…

I decided to walk through fear

so I popped a couple pills as my eyes rolled back

Dawn turned to day and then night again

the stars listened to my stories as I lay on the grass

…

He approached me in a way I’ve never seen

Eyes bright as the stars in the sky

a voice of milk and honey

and silence of tingling bliss and cool air in my lungs

My Child, he spoke

you will be okay

I blinked and in a moment he was gone

I was alone again in the chill of the night air

and an empty mind