Fire Boy, Take Me

by Ariana Akbari

You lick me like flames
without moving, I watch you flicker
in my eyes.

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Tied to the stake,
I’m burning, but thankfully
am cursed to feel no pain.

You move, lithe and quick and
expanding — an animal
on the landscape.

Looking me down and up,
I swallow, but it is you
who consumes me.

My mind explodes
like dynamite — I’m crashing,
fighting you is useless.

Take me, fire boy, take me.