The colored fire

a poem - youth

The colored fire
Began as a spark that caught
We added the kindling, fanning and fueling it
And it grew into a red raging flame
The flame spat and licked and scorched and singed us alike.
We gathered round and required its warmth
The blaze melted the plastic into a charred mass and the parts without substance became ash for the wind.
Elements refined, remained and welded permanently, I cauterized my pain in it.
Flushed we whispered and giggled in communion bed urbanity
We frolicked and defied the rain, consuming blue ruin till maudlin, stirring the heat, playing in the glow
My memories burn fervid in my soul
Memories of how we danced and drank life of how we scorned and dared life
Gently stroking comity
Illuminated we gather round the coals
The flames have dies away, leaving the blue embers
The luster quenched but the heat ever more intense