singed
Nearby, sex
taunts me
angels in lingerie
goodness wants
nothing left
unexposed
tears
for that which I’ll never have
trembles
for a future
without you.

Hallways
each door shut
a passage that grows
faster than I can walk it.

Then all at once
each door opens
a thousand dreams
at my beck and call
and me
stunned
into paralysis.

A moth to the flame
and you by my side
leave me I tell you
yet what good does it do
when at the last minute
in you go
as I veer.

We get in the car
and drive off
as I remember
what you once were
before I burned you.