You are
That passion

The seconds
I looked up

Feeling my toes curl
Beneath a leather pair of shoes

That moment
That happened

As wild fires
Went alarmingly high

Within a chest

Hidden beneath
Me gazing right at you

For as long
As I could take it

Without
Bringing me down

To my knees

No one called
For help

To extinguish those fires
I held within

And neither have you realized
So much

That went on

Within