Words will flicker into nothingness as they flare up off my scorched earth tongue. Singeing the feathers of the carcass of what once was my fluttering infatuation with you. But I have always known infatuation is meant to burn out. It's as if I willingly stepped into a wall of flames. I suppose I wanted to scald the inside of my mouth with one sip of your name. I suppose I wanted to be burnt so bad that every time I tasted something, there you would be. But what had you ever really given me? I was infatuated with a fantasy There was no reality Only the mock flames that were forged And then blew out so simply.