Falling apart together
Simultaneously destructive
Infecting one another
In the many places love lives
The start was stars and stripes
Then the stars began to fall
Your lined verbal assaults
Have me clutching at the wall
Clutched once a time before
By hands engulfed in passion
That flame no longer burns
The clutch has lost its traction
With a pile of soot and ashes
Laid at our feet across the floor
We can paint our shoes in black
Or leave no footprints toward the door
A last look at one another
And present becomes past
You know that I still love you
But the fire burned too fast

~kb