Pele's Fire

Your lips are like Pele’s fire,

The glowing red amber of a Goddess

Revealing only a fiery touch

Of the ever burning passion

That lies deep within you

Like those of my blood before me

My blood is drawn to and for you

Driving with desire through my veins

Wanting to win your favor with

The gift of my mortality

My skin tightens in your heat as I near you

Burning me in glorious pain and doomed ecstasy

As I stand at the edge of my life and my death

Awaiting your sign and my moment

To sacrifice myself into you

I throw all my being into your burning passion

Letting my life become part of your immortality

As my body blissfully turns to embers

That scatter across the heavens

By your satisfied breath after

I die within your fire

Author's Note

Pele: Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. Also revered as the goddess of fire, lightning, and wind, known for her creativity, power, passion, and love.