if not for the solitude of our intimacy 
or the way we tempt ourselves in our privacy

would a love that was set ablaze burn for eternities? 
casting shadows over still waters
and damned by the winds, blowing so callously
as they whisper pleasing falsities 

a re-imagined heaven, built upon fantasies so cleared
taken by the tainted, now left to roam
you were all that I loved and all that I feared  
to bittersweet reminiscing of us, I do alone

I could have sworn there was another 
but I knew I could never bother 

scorched by the blaze of that very same obsession