Old lovers – they smolder,
But new flames burn;
      (Melded and Molten,
      Alloyed and Emboldened)
together, they solder -
all that I wished to discern.

In slow heat, in simmering embers
The mind cherishes, what the body remembers.
But in a warming blaze
In a fleeting phase
To ashes, to ashes!
My will - surrenders.

Up in flames! In plumes, in fumes!
You scorch, you scald, you willfully consume!

But I admire your fire,
Your fury, your desire,
extinguished too soon
upon our unlit pyre.

Warm my home, my hearth
My Heart!
Warn my heart --

it is worn.