Nourished by your
remembrance
framed by your
fragility
or maybe by
my own.
Love long sought after
but forever unrequited
like a flame in a steam-
operated motor, directing
my decisions, eliminating
inhibitions and authorizing
garish frivolity and
gregarious laughter.
This onesidedness
camouflages the introvert
accentuates the disinhibited
the inner femme fatale lon
considered non-existent.
It devours one personality
only to feed another.
Then it all blows up
in my lustful face
and I fight, I fight
the fire with fire,
passion anguish, ire.
Quickly surrounded,
enveloped, engulfed
then consumed
because that’s what
witches do.
They burn.