There is too much fire in me

Story by makyo on SoFurry

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#6 of Poetry

More brain problems :P


There is too much fire in me to be described by the soldering iron's tip.

If I were to draw that across my flesh,

it would all spill out at once.

I'd melt, eaten whole by flames,

and flow into a pool of molten silver.

I would be borne up through the clouds,

and grow lighter by the second.

Sublimation would claim me then,

atoms would scatter, diffuse.

All that energy poured to the air around me,

an imperceptible increase in temperature.

Particle would excite particle

until I'm felt only as warmth on your face.

But even that would not be enough.

When I fall, I will remain whole

I keep hoping that, one day, I'll spring palladial from the bole of a tree. Fully formed, sexless, Conceived without desire or intent. My body will be virginal and clean, My mind fresh, my soul at ease. The tree, behind me, will stand crooked,...

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Too many wine-dark seas need daily traversal, And here the shipping forecast calls for rain. The shipping forecast! What a load of bollocks. You can listen from start to finish And not hear a single word about how a day will feel. Or maybe...

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Unimportant Verse 10

I could never tell you that you feel too much. That you feel too hard, or that your feelings overwhelm and overtake you. I could never tell you how beautiful that is. That I wish I could feel those things, that I wish I could feel that way. ...

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