12/2/2024
Blistering, burning
Begging for air
Smoke plumes to the sky
Ablaze, alive
Contrite cries
Welcome to my tortured affair
The sun on high
The clouds sink low
Grasping for what remains
The elusive voice
Never a choice
No melodic refrains
Nevertheless
Here I stand
Burning while I may be
A piece, a part
Of a fractured heart
I'm giving you all of me