To Ashes We Fall

So long it took, though I now realize
The past of love was never true
It was a lust, but not for sex
A lust of love that never knew

The stakes it takes to shatter another
A desire to give and get
With the consequences to be a lover
A lover of sin, a lover to get lit
 
A high of love, but is only lust
Hormone crazed desperate fire
A fire within, with passion, with doubt, but must
The things I knew, the things I thought

What really is a lust or love
Without them to be one in the same
How can I possibly separate
Without myself to detonate

An explosion of pain, of guilt, desire
It's only human, or is it not
We all crave it, we stir the pot
A lot of passion, lust, love in the pot alone

Separating like water and oil
our minds shake to mix the potion
A potion so strong, most can not fight
But that isn't the problem

It's that we don't want to fight it
We love the high, this feeling, this desire
Overwhelming, potent, powerful
But with power comes the responsibility

One no one shows, or even dares to admit
We are lost in the battle
Hormone crazed world
Like an apocalypse no one saw coming

It takes over, the want, the need
Though once it's over, we fall, we crumble
Like a king with his castle, rubble left behind
Covered in ashes, our mind clashes

The mind shatters, the grief strikes hard
The potion has left, the power now gone
Finally the haze is gone, but what's to come
A clear mind, but shattered form

We now see what a power of lust
Forms from just a taste, a touch, the want
It clouds our judgment like smoke from a flame
Caught up in the moment, the glory

Realization hits right in the heart
The power it gave was only a temporary fix
The high so addictive, we add the mix
Seeking another hit, desperation restoration

Only to fail and fall from the clouds
Another crack in the mind already shattered
But what's one more, we ask ourselves
We seek it again and again, it's our nature

We seek the hit, to engulf the flame
We burn, we cry, we heal
But there's that one hit that burns to ashes
Our life, our soul, our passion we must

Until one day we fall and never get up