Flame
By SMR
I thought I'd found my bliss
On that day in my heart a flame was lit by your kiss
But for reasons you chose to omit you disappeared
Leaving me here all alone with but the remnants of a flame
Slowly fading away
Wondering where you had gone
Had I done something wrong?
Even in your absence time has gone by
Yet the flame’s faintest glimmer like the phantom sensation of your touch still lingers
And like a fool I still yearn for your love even though you abandoned us
Leaving nothing behind but ashes in my heart where once a flame had shone
My precious memories now hard to discern
The untold words that remain unspoken in the gradually engulfing silence of the slow fading flame,
Hurting at the approaching darkness
Would you let a flame ignite
Knowing it could set you on fire?
My tears cascade on the pieces of my broken heart soothing the hurt somewhat
But with my every tear drop the flame gets duller as I grow number
And just like the pain the flame has yet to fully fade and disappear
Yet I can no longer shed a tear
So now how can I make the pain less severe?
Would you let a flame ignite
Knowing it would set you on fire?
Maybe I should try to find comfort in this pain
As it tells me
I am not just alive but that I've lived, I've cried yet I've survived
I am a being full of emotions
Not some monster void of all
But in ways a rather sensitive soul
With dreams, hopes, insecurities and goals
Capable of such love that can break my heart twofold
Will you let the flame ignite
Knowing it'll set you on fire?
I know not all that has been broken can be mended
But I know with patience and persistence in time my heart will beat anew
I’ll be fine without the flame lit by you
However I'll carry with me forever the memories
To always remember
The good and bad altogether
Because the place in my heart that once shone with that flame so brightly
I have filled with the ashes of what I thought to have lost and forgotten
And I won’t let it weigh me down
No, I’ll go on without regret until the day I die
As I have loved without restraint and without shame
Even when the price I had to pay was heartbreak
To love that ends with a broken heart or to never have loved
Is no choice for me at all
