Embers to Ashes

And it sits in me still

That wanting

Sometimes thrilling but more often

Haunting

And my head tends to throb

From the thinking

And my heart flutters still

As it’s sinking

I beg myself to stop

The madness

To stop picturing life like

I had this

When the thoughts are

Unfailingly seeping

I still glow in the embers

I’m keeping