Just a filigree of love's desire <br />Entangled red-gold threads of fire <br />Dreams burning ‘neath the midnight sun <br />My moonlit diamonds come unstrung <br /> <br />You're fire by night, and ice by day <br />Got too many dragons left to slay <br />Secrets whispered to the wind <br />Unheard, but by wayward kin <br /> <br />My passion, hanging on the line <br />Lust infused and steeped in wine <br />I keep singing for my daily bread <br />Still hungry for the words unsaid <br /> <br />Mysterious treasures flutter by <br />Dream ghosts haunt the darkened sky <br />Memories toss on blackened seas <br />Twisted in love's filigree <br /> <br />In beautiful madness, my heartache screams <br />I keep searching for my broken wings <br />To carry home forgotten glee <br />A fire that once dwelt inside of me <br /> <br />There's so much lost, such wasted time <br />Ten thousand lines of useless rhyme <br />I'm bleeding out, my wounds are deep <br />My passion's lost in twilight sleep <br /> <br />A decade trying to understand <br />The demons trapped inside the man <br />I guess it's just not meant to be <br />My heart has yet agreed to see <br /> <br />The burning bridge of my desire <br />The flames are raging higher, higher <br />I just don't' know how to put it out <br />The flames are fueled by growing doubt <br /> <br />My eyes are stinging, from the smoke <br />So hard to see…the cruel joke <br />You had me fooled, I was taken in <br />The laughs on me, this time you win<br /><br />Leria Hawkins<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/burning-bridges-14/
