A Burning Heart Poem by Jessie Jett

When you love someone, you open your heart.
You open it so wide, it pours from every vien in your body.
That beating heart, beating love- then to take it away:
Beats nothing.

Oxygen in your lungs, air you've always breathed.
Eyes you use to see, what you always hear.
So numbing, not to have it here, all gone.
Without it- Nothing.

A hot blazing fire, keeps you warm too.
Constantly throwing more wood onto.
It burns bigger, and brighter in time.
Until it goes out- leaving nothing behind.

When you love someone, they have your whole heart.
But like dumping water all over a fire.
Stomping out your heart, all your desires.
The fire it sizzles and smokes. Remaining just ash.

After it's left, soaking wet and dead;
Like a heart full of love, everything you ever dreamed of.
That beating heart, left in the ash;
Beats, burns, and feels nothing.