Poem2024-07-25T09:32:52+00:00

Fire and Tears

By: Valerie Winkle

you are
the fire
reflecting in
my eyes

warming
my thoughts
with your flame
you flicker
on my skin
burning holes
in the heart
of my true
feelings for you

you are the
salty tears
I cry
floating on my
ebony eyelids
swimming down
the mounts of
my olive cheeks
onto my breast
in painful strokes
you jade me
staining the
broken jade
of who
I honestly am
scattering them
to quench
your ego’s thirst