Drowning in Flames

A cinder lights the wick that lights the candle, it burns too quick.  It tips and hits the floor, and lights more.  The rug in a blaze, lights the entire place.

It brightens up the night sky, a pyre in the distance.  Impossible to miss it. Illuminating darkness, it only took one ember to spark this.

   Exploding on the inside, like a dying quasar, leaving only a black hole

                          Staining a broken heart that used to be whole

The beginning like a phoenix, she raised me from the ashes

                                        Gave me....something unique.  Something special.

It only took one conversation, to quell this conflagration.

Now when we speak, I can only live in past tense.  And I can't get past when,      I put the fire out.  Her smile now a frown, she was my oxygen.

                                            For a moment, I had drown

                                                I had truly let her down

My lungs fill with water, my heart beat skips, muscles tense up, a blue tint touches my lips.  As my eyes close, and I sink farther down into my own depths.

                            Crying out for breath, but there's no love left.