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WOMAN ON FIRE


you hide it half-heartedly
cover it, just barely
that flame that secretly burns
you mask it with romance
dilute it with pretty words
try to deny it to yourself

but you are a woman on fire

you smolder and I smell
the smoke a world away
you squirm and cry for freedom
chained in a cold pit of shame
for being a sensual woman
chilled by another’s blizzard

there’s no denying your passion

I am like a moth who flies
too close to the flame
a man unafraid to play with fire
no white knight on a white horse
more like a dark dragon of desire
a breath of fire in the night

to burn away your modesty

though you try to smother it
I can feel your steamy heat
a world away from your lips
from the inside out you will
burn us both to fine ashes
for you are a woman on fire



DJA 8/19/2009