Our love is pollution

Your smolders blanket me in warm reassurance

But you’ve suffocated my thoughts

My family is in anguish

They cried for me to leave you

Yet here I am 

Holding your hand now

And for what

 

Ash is suffocating my creations

Taking over my home

I treated it as another decoration

A gift that I honored

But the consequences were deadly

I was naive

 

Now soot covers the once green ground

And its colors match the sky

If only I wasn’t so foolish

If only I wasn’t so blind

 

I remember when you were young and tame

The flames came up

Never erupted

I didn’t mind the heat

But that was when it only affected me.