We Are Like Fire Poem by Peter S. Quinn

A fire gives within
Poems of the heart
With desires to spin
And sting like a dart
Like thorns of a rose
That gives you its sting
When you come up close
And feel from its swing

Like the dark desire
Or the apple of fate
These flames never tire
Nor go out of date
For love is their burning
And gives it its claim
And feelings of turning
Inside their flame

For love is an emotion
And the deepest abyss
So particular its erosion
When it gives its first kiss
Never again returning
To the lost innocence days
For inside it’s then burning
Its many rose red ways