I was a fatality waiting to happen

unable to resist the temptation

of getting too close to the flames 

I walked blindly into the path

of fast movers on love's freeway

you found me

a twisted wreck of torn limbs

and breathed life into my broken soul

your bodhisattva healed 

my haemorrhaging heart

and re-tuned it 

extracting sweet notes from its core

like a stradivarius

you were Eros

lifting me so high on glittering wings

I plucked stars like apples from the sky

and gorged insatiably until I craved 

your fruits so intensely

that the fire of need 

killed our passion

leaving the corpse of love 

swelled and spent after 

another glimpse through 

the side door of paradise