If they do not see honesty in your smile,

Feel compassion in your touch,

Warmth in your laughter and sincerity in your words,

If they look at you with conviction, and doubtful eyes  

           perhaps it's time to walk away.

For it is already clear:
         The beauty within your heart cannot appease every beast.

Love seekers are matches
Looking for a flame.

It lights them up,
Gives them meaning
And then...

And then it kills them.


F.Z.**N

Here rests a future
Untouched and eager
for light
Wanting to exude its aromas
of which I neither looked
nor cared.

She handed me the match
fresh, burning bright,
a new sense in my familiar room.

Baffling confusion
overtook as I blew her match
so stubborn
to extinguish
in a faint stream of
smoke still thinning.

Was I
the stubborn?

Subsequent darkness
overtaking
Once a sweet home
Now a paralyzing loneliness.

Match burnt, candle gone
future still…

Will another offer to
light my dark corners
--myself willing,
with a newfound scent?

A day may come
to end my night,
but I only care to see
the one I once hid from.

Ever wondered why we had to burn out or crash in flames?

Everything was on fire when i was by your side.

It all started with a spark, though.

Because i thought you were my match.

And i blame you for looking like hot stuff that Friday summer night.

What kills me the most
Is that your forever
Never quite matched mine.


F.Z.**N

I am not your match, no.
I'm just a match
Waiting to be set on fire.


F.Z.**N

Like paper
and a match,
you know
exactly what
to say to draw
my anger
to the surface.
You somehow
always bring out
the absolute
worst in me.
-JRM