Burning the Love Letters
Long smoldering passions, waked to flame--
See how these pages twist and turn,
tormented by love's fiery tongues,
and in their antique ardors burn.
Bodies of lovers, twisting, turning,
in a carnal holocaust of gold,
condemned for witchcraft, heresy,
for fires, once crimson, now grown cold.
Copyright 2010-2012 Paul Petrie