Brilliant

I loved you
with wild abandon.
Your fire, so hot,
and I walked right in
without a thought
for my safety.
I was happy
to be fuel for you.
Perhaps you burned
a little brighter
because of me.
But you were starved
of oxygen
and there was nothing
I could do.
Oh, how I wished
that I could breathe for you.
So fleeting was your glow,
now where am I to go?
I see the other flames,
they’re not the same.
My source of heat
extinguished,
I’m cold to the core
of my soul.
Another says I’m not finished.
She has hope for this lump of coal?
A million lifetimes more
before I transform
into that diamond
sparkling with the lost fires
it has known.
A gem exquisitely cut
from the embers of your love.