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If the flame
at first seems
a surprise
a line between
knowledge
and realization.


   
 

As you realize
... all is not well ...
that the danger is real
but by then - its too late!


 
   

Your world slowly
turns
to fire
an internal hell,
you've lost control,
a fire so virulent
it consumes you
as it spreads
deeper within you.


And then your fighting
for your very life,
within those flames,
that are burning
your very soul
to ash.


   
 

You have never
imagined
these screams.
You have never seen
Love itself
burning
like a child.


 
   

And within that
useless fight
you see your own death.
A vision too clear
for mortals
like me


Despair has no
depth
for it is deeper
than we can ever
bear.
It tears our souls
to its very source.


   
 

I have been
to the final edge
more times than
I care to say
and for Love -
a dream.


 
   

A memory I
Struggle to see
a ghost so vague
that it is lost
with flames.
More tenuous
than death itself.


Death has reality
so simple to understand
a belief beyond the
emptiness.
A jail that
is beyond here.


   
 

I have spent a fortune
on you
and you don't
even know.
I've spent a lifetime,
a soul -
for you.


 
   

In the end
I believe
in rings forever;
"until death
do us part".


 

In the end.
it makes no difference
what we do
we are each
alone
more alone
than the stars
ever will be.

 



No.158
© Susanna Saunders
 9th April 1991


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