Burned Down Our Love

This poem is actually very personal. Sometimes when I write, it's on very general topics or it's on experiences that friends, homies, or strangers told me they've had. However, "Burned Down Our Love" is about me realizing that there are two people equally responsible for the demise of a beautiful relationship. A relationship that was built slowly on love and laughter became destroyed by fleeting outside factors. Such a fucking shame that we can let that happen! Humans are inately selfish.

"For we battle not against flesh and blood but agains powers and principalities"
Ephesians 6:12

Burned Down Our Love

We lost it all in the fire

The memories, the harmony, and the desire

Warm giggles turned into flaming screams

Adultery deflated our bubble dreams

We almost had it all, as the voice would say

Now our body of love is dead and decayed

The pulse of our love has ceased its trimmer

No other arms can warm me, this coldest winter

No other love can feel how yours first felt

Before your heart became cold and difficult to melt

No other flesh can blend with mine like yours

No other comfort can expose me to the deepest core

I can no longer hold on to a long-lost fantasy

I must let it burn, before this thing burns me

I'm in love with what we could be, hate what we are

Baffled by thefact that weve drifted this far

We watched our romance go up in flames

We constantly fueled the pleasure and pain

Want your heat closer to myface, to taste my lust

But our love is volatile it spontaneously combusts

Rescue never came

We were swallowed by the flames

Smoke filled our throats

And choked out any shred of hope

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

We lost it all in the fire, Baby, what happened to us?

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

We lost in all in the fire, Honey, including the trust

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

We lost it all in the fire, Baby, we burned down our love

Nathaniel