Love is like a Fire

Written about my ex, inspired by a metaphor (love is like a fire) told to me at the Rainbow Gathering by a beautiful person during a crucial time in my mental evolution. To her I send my overwhelming gratitude.

I think your' embers finally died

Turned to smoke from tears I cried

Because love is like a fire

If you feed it, it gets bigger

If you leave it, it expires

But the embers keep on burning for a while

Despite all my denial, they were still producing heat

Still inducing lack of sleep, and making laughing lose it's glee

But there came a time that my mind could no longer

dissipate the entropy

That's a fancy way of saying, that thoughts of you were slaying at my brain

Down to my veins, and my system could not go on existing with this pain

I thought that the breakdown and rebuilding had occurred

But my mind was just portraying a false sense to feel secure

Obscurely, it took the words from a very pretty birdie

To open up my eyes and realize I was still hurting

Now I'm flirting with the thought, that finally our fire has stopped burning

All that's left is memories in form of ash

In wind they're swirling past my eyes as I'm observing

Now it's time to let the truth induce and curve my wording;

I loved you, and maybe I still love you

But now I'm floating miles above you

And I'm watching life happen from a bird's eye view

And I'm letting all my feelings for you fly through my lens

My telescopic, microcosmic, objective lens

You see I've got a hundred friends, despite my odds and ends

There are people in my life who will stick with me until the end

They will push me to get better, don't need a meter stick to measure

What I have now is much better, bounds better

I've found the ground, crouched to kiss the leaves and sticks

And felt the love so tender to my lips

I love every single particle of energy and every single galaxy inside our universe

United, spinning endlessly

I love you like a mother loves her' child

And despite the fact that you're a thieving b***h

I hope you find a place in life that always makes you smile

And I mean that from the center of my being

I love you for the power that you had over my feelings for the last few years

It makes me feel alive, and even though our fire has died

You showed me the power of the ember

bringing heat to cold Decembers

And I won't cease to remember this, ever again

So, on top of our ashes in this pit, another fire can finally be lit

And this time I will feed it wood, and make sure that it never lose it's flame

Because this dame is not the same, she is worth my time and energy

And though she's almost too bright to contain;

I will learn from my past, feed the fire or else it will not last

And I will feed this new fire until the ashes cover up the previous

This time I will not deviate, it took this new flame to alleviate my heart

Inside her eyes lies the spark

I'll try to get this fire burning, so were both safe from the dark.