Many years have I still to burn, detained <br />Like a candle flame on this body; but I enshine <br />A darkness within me, a presence which sleeps contained <br />In my flame of living, her soul enfolded in mine. <br /> <br />And through these years, while I burn on the fuel of life, <br />What matter the stuff I lick up in my living flame, <br />Seeing I keep in the fire-core, inviolate, <br />A night where she dreams my dreams for me, ever the same.<br /><br />David Herbert Lawrence<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dissolute-2/
