I see wildfire, <br />Burning in your blue eyes, <br />Like rusty barrels exploding in the night. <br />And I am lost in a memory, <br />Of red flames blinding my sight. <br /> <br />I feel the haunting pain of tender scars, <br />Lingering in the place my skin has healed, <br />Of cracked flesh and singed hair, <br />And moist blisters that have peeled. <br /> <br />I touch my cheek to feel the mask of skin, <br />A sliver of a scar dividing my face. <br />The mirror gazes back at me, <br />As I stare at the ghost-white lace. <br /> <br />There was blood on my grey hat, <br />And part of my overcoat was burned away. <br />My mind attempts to push back those memories, <br />Of that dark, long ago day. <br /> <br />You stood over my trembling body, <br />An empty look clouding your face, <br />When you saw it was the woman you loved, <br />In your greatest enemy's place. <br /> <br />The smoke in your eyes, my blood staining your cheek, <br />Visions of fire, of burning blood- <br />I see them in dreams again and again. <br />Always recalling your look of pain, <br />As no one else could. <br /> <br />The memory of the smoking gun, <br />Clutched in your grey hand, <br />Of the aching voice leaving your lips, <br />As the flames melted my wedding band. <br /> <br />You walked away into the embers, <br />A blizzard of rage lost in your frown, <br />Ice blue eyes remain on my mind, <br />Sending fire through a freezing town. <br /> <br />Down by the docks tonight, <br />I'll dropp my scarf into the sea, <br />And watch the red cloth wash away, <br />And beg the flaming memories leave. <br /> <br />(Summer 1992)<br /><br />Lesa MRK<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flaming-memories/
