Campfire Ghost Stories

You fed my heart more kindling words

Fueling the flames with embraces

Blowing the gas from your pursed lips

Igniting into inferno

But the blaze is often wild

Unpredictable. Unruly.

Unbearable.

Once the heat grew too much,

And the sizzling of skin slid into scorn

You abandon the pyre, fighting fire with fire

Expecting your departure to burn.

Instead, what you left

Was a untamed wildfire

Burning everything around me to ash

Simply because you couldn’t extinguish me properly