Evening Poems: The Ballroom of Fire

I’ve got on a gown of ash 

Come on darling, let’s look past.   

The room’s afire, windows alight.  

Orange flames against the night.  

They’re playing our song, 

Just dance along. 

A waltz in a ballroom of fire.   

The shadows weave against the wall 

A tragic dance- dont let me fall. 

In a ring of spark and ember. 

I’ll do my best to not remember  

This waltz in a ballroom of fire.  

The violins climb and then they sing.  

The fateful song in the halls do ring.  

The tiles are now stained with coal. 

My hands are black-this is the toll. 

Look at me, though the flames are higher.  

This is The Waltz in a ballroom of fire.  

The clock strikes- it is the end.  

The smell of smoke 

As time continues its endless march.  

Smoke is all I have to breath. 

Fire and flames are all I see. 

Is that a shadow-or is it your face? 

Your hand that I hold is my saving grace.  

As we Waltz in a ballroom of fire.  

Admist the crackle, a clock does chime. 

This is it- we’ve run out of time.  

All I ask is you hold my close.  

As we raise a glass of final toast.  

Of a night well spent in a ballroom of Fire.  

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