Remember the fire

Remember the fire
Inside your heart?
Flames and flesh
Can’t co exist
Smoke should
Never meet chest

Today’s so still
It cuts silence
Through bush
Sets motionlessness
Through water
Freezes minds
In harrowed longing
For something
Simpler and easier
Than all This

Flocks of black birds
Circle endlessly
Through residual
Tiny pockets
Of untouched blue
Trying desperately
To break open the sky
So we can all heave
A collective sigh
Of relief

I know this silence
Hear it
Ringing in my ears
The foretelling
Of an impending
Heated Hurt

I feel this silence
And how it stretches
From me
To you
To out beyond forever

Oh force of heat and heart
D’you know how much I fear you?
Yet how ready I am to meet you
With all of my love
And all of my rage?

I hear the future
Whispering
Howling
Sobbing
Hoping

​Sometimes it’s screaming
Sometimes it’s standing right beside me
Sometimes it is me
And my hot and heavy heart.