~Scorched~

Vanquished - consumed by regrets/regrettable

Shake hands with icy fingers - stay lit/belittled

Lead in hot irons - scorched by more fires/tangibles

Life flickered out – light of their face/dispersed

Shallow compliments/ground unhallowed

Life inside me buried – hearse/rehearsed

Fragments kindled/rekindled

New tale to unfold - nuptials postmarked/resale

To relive again – at night toss & toss/tearful

In morn – chin-up/chip off the old block; sinful?

Let’s see now – mentality, scruples  . . . naïve/delightful

Pray to God – unscarred heaven; other choice - sulfurous wake

If haste – slain again?/apprehensive – moth around the flame

Disgruntled look – face to sink a thousand slip(s)-ups

Hesitation – sense of another love lost – shock & grief

Time renders like a processing plant – scorched cinderhella

All blackened but inside perfectly sound – yeah right!

Summed-up: suffered from lack of love – heart de-gloved,

Next one to the plate – batter-up!

Copyright (c) 2006 Tinka Boukes & Dennis O’Bell