Consumed

Your eyes
Search the gloom
For mine-
But you find
Only
Blackness.

I have hidden
From the fire
Of the hatred
And fear
In the soul
You sought to
Hide from me.

Where could I run?
Where could I hide?
The fire was searching
For me
Calling
For me
Drawing me in
Simply by being
Close.

The heat in the hate
Consumed me.

Why could I see
What you were doing
To me?

Smoke
    Hides
          Flame.

And when
Time passed,
When the smoke
Had cleared...

It was too late.

Ashes to ashes
You left me-
Not gone,
but distant,
As the apathy
Of my brainwashed
Love
Consumed me.

But
  Now
      I'm
        Free.

The glory of passion
Is mine once more.

But if
Freedom is so sweet
Why do I remember
Your face
And weep?