as I stare
into your fire
I whisper
just let me
draw you closer
I just want
to clearly see
your intimate
dancing flames
I fervently need
to sensually feel
your passionately romantic
searing heat
as I imagine
how your glowing
embers feel
mysteriously beneath 
your burning skin
I have to wonder
if true love
somehow exists
unknowably within
your yearning soul
I try to hear
listening so very closely
to your epic sizzling
as you crackle and burn
going up in exaggerated flames
tears come to my eyes
not to extinguish
your wanting fire
but to gently wash
in broken rivulets
through all this love
beyond our hearts
through all our burning
combusting desire
those important things
we want to trust
those portent dreams
we need to keep
glowing embers
deep in our souls
all that fire
burning in our hearts
all that precious love
we hope to one day know
helps me see through
your flames and flare
helps me accept
just what and where
I might find fuel
to keep this burning
love I feel
for all you are
and all that
consuming fire
that I see there
all those bursting embers
igniting into flames
everything your blazing heart
dares to share

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