Death of Love

He touched her
Every part, but her flesh
It ran deep
It started fires
She burned for every part of him
To make it tangible
Let her touch, feel
Consume this thing that awakened everything in her

Tortured her
Always on the way
But never arriving
And they screamed, those voices in her head
Battling
To decide what was real
If she was crazy to be this open
To something so far, unreachable

She had loved perfect once
Touched and caressed it
Gave it everything
And it gutted her
She had bathed her self in the red essence of life
And prayed for death
But was forced to be the living dead

Loneliness, pain and fear
Sat with her for so long
To the very core of her being
She didn't know how to live
Those moments all hidden
In her heart and eyes
Things she couldn't let people see or touch
Recoiling from the tender warmth of love

Fighting until there was no fight
Until there was no denying the yearning
The ache to be close to him
This love he offered
But with every passing moment
Every touch that never came
Each call that didn't ring
The weeks that passed by

Doubt grew
A fear of humiliation
The dread of once again
Being the fool
So she destroyed it
Became the very thing that decimated her
Once again she prayed for death
So she didn't have to see it die