Final Embers

I 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.