You breathe fire and it's beautiful

Red, orange, yellow, blue

Bright light in the darkness 

That lives all around you 

Every word burns to ashes in air

And sends embers out like tiny stars

They pepper your skin 

And decorate you with tiny scars

You give life to your sentences

And then you burn it away

Like that gift

Didn't mean anything anyway

I want so badly to get close

To see you up close with my own eyes

But my heart bears 

A warning sign

FLAMMABLE, it says

I sit in the back corner 

And watch you grow bolder and bolder

And bolder

I close my eyes and wonder

What it could be like

To dance with a flame like you

With my ribbon soul alight

Your laugh is a whirlwind of sparks

You relish in the tiny burns

You spin like a music box ballerina

I wonder if I could take a turn

I step out of my corner

I forget my warning sign

And I gather courage 

From the recesses of my mind

"Hey," I say,

And you turn with a smile

"Hey," you say, 

And you've set me on fire

I'm alight with sparks of my own

And I love the burn and the light and the danger

You welcome me close

A candlemaker 

That is what I am now

A candle of your making

Not quite enough wax and far too much wick

Dazzling in a dress of ribbons  and flames

I am burning to ashes

I feel my warning melt away

My flammable heart a wreck in my chest

But I dance with you anyway

Such a flammable heart

I've been given

But life is more beautiful

In flames than in ribbon.