poem #2: love loss

i can't quite remember

the residual heat

from extinguished embers

the smoky reminder

ashen chips

from a once raging fire

instead,

i'm still...cool...glass

reflecting light

transparent

smooth

...water rolling off me

a surface unchanged

unmoved
until bluntly cracked
or under pressure

i remember nothing

of passions engulfing

wild and reckless

just caution,

a flame-less candle
lit...no danger of growing
no danger of losing control
...my heart is absent
of the feeling
that stirs beneath the breast
and gives life to bated breaths
and boils up
like water
touching lava
causing seas unrest...
...i have not selected
not to recollect
i want nothing more
than for my heart to crackle
with erratic blaze
and give spring to my step
balm to my face
and love in my heart...
...it just seems that,
i'm to be abject to this memory loss...
love's memory loss