to build a fire

i’m as dark as the deepest white and dawn to the end of night, when everything’s closed but your eyes. they are earth’s rich soil reflecting heaven’s wild flame. electric cigarettes all go out, the neon dims and your limbs are free. too expensive for money and too smart to learn. logic gave up on you long ago, its will broken and beat. i break its brother, doubt, across my knee like a twig. i use the remains to build you a fire where we burn all that keeps us apart and watch the smoke rise like arms reaching for someone to hold.