to spread heat over every crevice,
every deep fold of the earth.
This burning feels endless and barely contained,
a premonition of the ashes that may come,
of knowing that men may not be able
to wield power over such ancient elements.
And I believe you attempted to impart this message once,
I only remember the moments now as flickers
strobing within dreams when you became lightning
dancing across the sky to halt my advance.
Every particle in the air rippled,
charged with your specific essence
humming through these aching pores,
a cool breeze as you took shape before me.
Words were not necessary in this moment,
the precipice of this foretold standstill
between the primal and the elemental.
One palm caressed my cheek,
intensified the breeze and swept
the flames away from my fevered skin.
Time contracts when such forces meet,
when such longings fuse spirits and fingertips,
I remember the contrasts of you and I,
the elements that helplessly race to one another
To soothe and tease and what makes us
until the earth splits open below us,
trembles in our powerful wake.
I believe you and I have joined this way before,
weaving together like the endless dance
between fire and water,
between the wind’s invisible currents
tangled through every crevice until
We only remember it in flickering myths,
flashes against ancient still skies
strobing along bodies when they yield,
when we let our hunger envelope spirits.
As my fire began anew to surge
and take shape inside of you,
a cool hand caresses this fevered cheek,
slow fingertips encompassing a desire without words.
Time contracts when such skins must meet,
must soothe and take one another to remind us
that we cannot be forever contained,
that such contrasts must give in and crash
in this primal dance of elements.
This need is endless between you and I,
taking whatever shape we must
to pull the other so near that they never
never taste a premonition of snowing ashes.
We only believe in the burning,
the wind’s cool touch racing over us after,
the pulsing hearts pressed together in release
when the earth below trembles in our wake.
