Scorched earth love
You preferred
to make love slowly,
as if you were afraid
that any increased speed
would cause friction
that would spark the oxygen
we hadn’t yet used,
sending up
the room around us.
I preferred
the speed of passion
and impurity,
because with my
dying-from-the-inside-out,
scorched earth
approach to love,
I’d rather turn out the lights
just to watch us burn.
“Scorched earth love” won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest of the Connecticut Poetry Society
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Published by Steven Harz
Steven Harz was the 2013 winner of the international People's Poetry Contest and is a three-time winner of The Iron Writer Challenge. In his writing, Steven captures the exhilaration, pain, and frustration of love, all the while making you strive to find the perfect balance. His work will pierce your heart with memories of love gone bad or an undying commitment to not let that happen to you - pain, truth, and appreciation pour out of his words.
Steven's works have appeared in Inwood Indiana Press' Tracks, Voices 2, Donut Factory, Words+Pictures, Ink Monkey Magazine, The Germ, The Voices Project, Pocket Thoughts, and Indigo Rising UK.
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I am definitely the latter.