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Fire and Ice

Wanting you is like wanting to burn alive

Pain, pain, pain. Numbness.

Needing you is like needing nicotine,

Wanted so badly, yet rejected so harshly.

If I could look back and change my way

My feelings, from the start,

I can't say I would. 

I like the burn

The needy habits

The routines full of nothing.

Then there's the water

Wanting you is like wanting to drown.

Struggle and flail, then orgasmically peaceful.

Needing you is like icicles

Glimmering during cold, melting when the fire arrives.

I miss that.

I miss that more than fire.

Fire is fun. Dangerous. Scary.

Water is gentle. Careful. Wonderful.

If only I could break away,

Away from the burn,

The burn that I crave.

The burn that gets me high..

Then maybe I'd want to drown.

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marie-warner
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Sep 15, 2010
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