Love Poem: Burning Hearts and Wilted Flowers
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Burning Hearts and Wilted Flowers

You're the flame around my heart,
am I still your smile
when we're apart?

As you leave your flame flares up,
but when I look into your face,
I miss your lack of smiling place,
You are my fire!

Where were you before my first flame?
What were you before in me?

After your last flame
returns from where it came
what remains but sacred memory?

Although our flames elapse and change,
inhaling light's upflaring waves,
are you this same fire
from first consuming claims
through our last expiring rest?

Other than your warm body
warming Earth's co-gravitation,
mothering this same fire
I watched expire last night

Outside your measured fire storms
earthquaking loveless landslides,
untreasured life's reflective time.

Does your flaming heart
hide compassioned souls
in some primal blame
from this same hearth?

Yet more compelled 
by burning differences
through indifferent times 
and sad shame places.

My heartflow heated spaces
privileged nature's species
emerging fertile fires
with despairing ends

Enraptured burning Trees of Life
charred roots of ashen death,
inducing fallen memories 
of good flame health
interred by flaring time's hot-red boundary,
pathology of here-now loss,
last expiring breath.

Is this how flaming love
seeks sacred Sun's 
same searing soul?

And mundane nature's
more warmly kind
absence of burnt-out love
in green peaceful pastures?

My flaming blame 
arises up 
and represses down
to in and out revolve again
another night of shared light memory

Another season,
another moment,
another flaring space
time glaring toward
reconnecting well-fired heat
of star-fired compassions

Yang emergent flaming hearts,
as Yintegrity refires 
all-consuming brilliant flow

Slow-burn nurturing air to blow,
boiling overheated water
baptizing bleated breaths
inhaling exhaled light 
greets Earth-rooted powers.

Wavey flames 
with abundant fuel
burning co-arising hearts

Primal co-relationships
zero-soaring soulful strong
refilling empty intent
to raises Yang's full-power flame
with Yintegrity's fertile flow

Balancing burning
yearning hearts 
against wilting memory's flowers,
regenerating midway 
light empowering fires. 

Why do Earth's nature flames 
inhale and exhale
slow flow fueling spirit frames?

Sensual breaths,
co-empathic licking smiles
toward WinWin 
productive all-consuming resonance

Co-arising flames ebb
and co-gravitate slow burn flow 
of warm wealth hearted practice

Why do healthy co-infested flames
love to smell 
and taste
and feel
and grow together?

Fired up beyond my broken heart,
without your shaming smile

As night engulfs
cold blaming acrid ashes
falling senselessly apart.