ON FIRE

You embrace me
like a flame surrounds a log
Seeming not to touch
but reaching inside until I begin to
melt.

So deep is your touch
with each caress I lose part of
myself
Consumed by your raging heat.
Your flickering tongue
only whets my desire
until, at last, I am broken down
all ashen and coal
where once I was whole

An ember
received by the soil.