burn it down.

fierce my heart burns,
heavy with power, as yet unknown.
soft truth,
iron in earth.
unchanging, eternally unchanged.

your touch is fire.
ignite!
we burn into the night.
ignited and burning
to whatever end comes first.

on travel.

look through the window
this country looks like your face.
solitude beckons.

on desire.

i know you feel it back -
i feel it in the touch -
or in the way you never touch me.
your armor grows strong.
impenetrable.
unbreakable.
what you are now is safe
secure
nonthreatening
and sure.
why throw that away on this unknown quantity.
brief.
it all ends.
the darkness of doubt.
pass on these opportunities.
i weep for the possibility
now living only in my mind -
never in reality.
sorrow tastes of hot, bitter tears,
dropping in the night,
hung over from the hope that sustained me.
the thrill of hope is gone,
but life moves on.