She Dances Like Fire

She dances like fire

Flames like licking lips accentuating curves against black

Her flesh moist, her chest heaving, hair tangled and knotted

She swings it like wild wind, rhythm be her gravity

Jungle beats pour loudly out of second rate speakers

Assailing all with vibrations as feet pound the pavement

Rain begins to fall cooling the night

Steam rises off the street like freed spirits

She burns hotter still

I watch this flickering flame as she weaves patterns in night

Her eyes never open, they search inwardly

For what I don't know, nor will I ever

All I can do is watch and feel the warmth of her radiant heat

Her movements tell a tale of woe

She's been burned, her heart has been charred

Her essence like so much wood stored within her pyre soul

Endlessly she burns and that is why,

She dances like fire