Muse

Strangers

Prompt: a sestina about silence using the words dark, ragged, screaming, never, fire, and kiss

Trapped, our meetings save me from lonesome dark

First impressions, better than the ragged

band of soldiers around you. Who? Never-

mind. Promise immortality. Screaming

Were we always destined for Desire's fire?

Then and there, should have sealed it with a kiss

Second date contemplating, could we kiss?

Lips, taunting me with forbidden and dark

Love, can it do more than burn with its fire?

Hope to meet again. Drink to a ragged

future, mundane inventions, you, screaming

"Us!" in dreams. Must ignore. Listen never

Love another? Renounce us to never?

You'd risk my promise for her empty kiss?

Sorrow stalks you, grief suffered through screaming

Shackled down, love, loss, always in the dark

Should peel back the past bleeding me ragged

No goodbye, then seek comfort by poet's fire

You looked like hell, suffering through a fire

Be damned, you were still beautiful. Never

truly wanted my promise stretched ragged

And tested with each final farewell kiss

Do you still wish to live? whispers the dark

Are you crazy!? Of course, I'll be screaming

I could tell you these feelings I'm screaming

I am all yours. Name, life, my soul of fire

Can't give secrets for she came from the dark

Tired tale: dashing knight rescues prince. Never

longed so to claim with a desperate kiss

No. I dare not risk you destroyed ragged

Time can't dull regrets of that night, ragged

words for you alone should have come screaming

Penance, pulses, perfect for just one kiss

Lean in... not here, where such dreams end in fire

Taken by surprise. You, need? No, never

Flee when rain paints your gorgeous shadow dark

Imprisoned, ragged cloth for you or fire

Captive screaming. Miss you. Sorry... Never

broken devotions shall kiss past the dark