With heart of rubber, swollen black,
And you are a torch, a light from heaven,
Fleeting across my back,
I'd feel you call through, heart-like shone
Upon my neck as temperance dries.
I'd wonder if you'd closer grown
Or flames just grew in size.
The radiance of your presence being
Enough to melt my immured heart,
And I only to face the flames,
Look down, feel it depart.
With hands across a chest of mesh
Stinging from internal burn,
Through holes between my shaky flesh,
The love from me adjourn.
