The Ashes Of My Soul

I came to you

a flickering flame

with a desire to feed

your soul, the perfect tinder

I fed off you, became ablaze

a burning image, an Angel of Fire

you loved me back, with an intensity that was frightening, dazzling

blinding to the eyes

the intensity of us was a force field

melting the ignorance of all who came near

I can still hear the screams....

See the doubt in me, burning

Still feel the heat of the fire....

As it rose, tiny sparks falling like snow all around us

with a life changing fire, raging in my soul

and then came the beginning

of the end

a funeral pyre for the ages

burned beyond belief

my scars more than skin deep

my fire smoldering

slowly dying away

ashes
floating like feathers stripped from a dying angel
set loose on a high wind

traveling miles...

I want the hopes and dreams, I want the heat

the passion, the lust...

words of prophecy and fire

now the ashes have settled

on farther ground

the rain hammering me into the dirt

till I am almost invisible

only traces of a being, white upon the earth

but now there is a growth

as I am beat into the ground

through the pain and suffering

life will rise

from the ashes of my soul.....