Love

By Patricia Buskirk

They said it would burn like a flame.

Yet I never quite understood

that the spark isn’t what they meant. 

It burns everything

The flame was metaphoric.

for the spark when two people fall.

and yet the flame is exactly that.

A flame, A fire, an explosion

Yet not of healing.

but of destruction

Love does not heal

it is simply fire,

It destroys everything.

until nothing is left to burn