That Fire Is Still Alight

-That Fire Is Still Alight-
by Keaton Foster


Heading
This way
Towards me
Once a flame
Thus ignition
A rekindling
She approaches
Speaking
Not yet seeing
An avoidance
At reuniting
Our connection
Assumption
Such a
Derelict institution
I should know better
But I don’t
She must feel
Just as I do
The closeness
Of our souls
She must know
That I’m very close
And if she don’t
Then to her face
I must ask
Why not
How come
Our once love
Was very strong
Overpowering
All-encompassing
Both a thing of beauty
And absolute tragedy
Something unforgettable
To all who survived it
Casually
She is with another
How cumbersome
A man that I
Do not know
A stranger here
In our hometown
He’s an outsider
In our once world
Of fairytales and dreams
For a man that posses
All that I’ve lost
He seems oblivious
To what he has taken
Or should it received
Quite familiar
Are her curves
Poignant
Is her smile
Those calming eyes
Have not changed
She is still amazing
Just as I alone
Remember
Once we
Her and I
Were novice lovers
I was her very first
She was mine
Under a missing moon
We once laid
We spoke of a future
That at that time
We had no idea
We would not have
She wanted to be an artist
She was talented
Gifted at landscapes
I could look into
One her paintings
And see something new
Every time
She
Brilliantly awkward
I myself
The world would
Say the same
Since our end
Since she broke my heart
And left
I’ve been wondering around
Staring at the ground
Never looking up
Never seeing others
I refused the idea
That she was not the one
No one
Can come close to her
I’ve been unable to forget
Unwilling to move along
Always am I
Pondering to myself
What if
And there she is
The spark to every flame
The light in every sky
The one true love
I could have called home
Maybe I should stop her
Maybe I could impose my will
I could tell her
How it is I still feel
Maybe I could act
As I should have before
It’s clear at least to me
That fire is still alight
Maybe I should do
Something more than before
She passes right on by
She looks happy
She looks like she is in love
There is a brilliance
To her presence
Without me
Of course that is
From a distance
What we had will burn…




That Fire Is Still Alight
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.