- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Final Embers
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Click hereI stare at the fire now smoldering before me
The memory of us very much the same
as the ashes reveal the finale of our love
Dimming; the embers flicker with pain.
Charring its surroundings; the air emits heavy
a dooming scent of forbidden love's cost
The heat of the flames; once blazing as we were
are gone now; squelched by the tears of all lost.
I watch in sorrow as the final two embers
fall aside together as if in despair
Taking their last breaths of life remembered
Dying; they drift apart as though they can't tear
away from the others that were there before they were;
the ashes and soot and remains of their past
They now lay with their own; with other dead pieces
As we do
Apart
Final embers at last.
- COMMENTS
LeBrozabout 16 years agoThis poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 39,000 poems.
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EmJ0385almost 18 years agoMaking the comparison between life and love and a dying fire makes for a powerfully painful image. Just hope I can manage a lifetime bonfire!!
LeBrozover 18 years agoA poignant metaphor fraught with sorrowful loss and pain; is the way it should have read.
Anonymousabout 19 years agointo my mind are visions of embers that once were a fiery blaze, yet smoldered such as this. A cathartic piece, not only for the author, but also for the reader. Thank you!
