Slow Fire

Slow fire

Ten years with you and never a fight,

No thunderclap, nor bitter refrain—

Just a slow and steady burn we share

Like a fire that needs a soothing rain

Through all the highways and the miles

Your love’s a song playing in my head 

A melody that calls me home—

To you, the fire…..your bed

There’s a hunger in that morning light

When your skin meets with mine at dawn

Intensely fierce yet beautifully slow

Lingering long after it’s gone.

Forever’s only ours to claim

Within love’s sweet and patient flame

In passions’s warmth we’ll rise and burn

Two hearts that never ache or yearn

So let this be my Valentine—

Not dressed in lace or borrowed line

But written quietly in each dawn

Where your slow fire does answer mine

John Snelling

02:14:26