When Fire Meets Fire

I was born the day the sun paused

to ask the moon if it could stay a little longer

A Leo by light

but still soaked in Cancer’s last cry

I carry a crown

but I’ve slept in oceans

You came in blazing

the last Sag arrow lit with Capricorn’s weight

A wanderer with a compass tattooed on your ribs

but no map that leads to me

I don’t blame you

Freedom has always felt safer than love

You burn with silence

I burn with sound

You say “Bet”

I say “I really want to see you”

Still, the spark survives the unsaid

You are the campfire

I am the wildfire

You warm from a distance

I consume to feel real

But you never run

Not fully

You orbit

You return

Your soul knows the smoke it came from

They say when fire meets fire it scorches

but we smolder

Slow

Ancient

Like we’ve done this in temples before

Maybe that’s why I wait without saying it

I still see your name when the numbers hit

The cusp of belief

The space between signs and surrender

So if you come back

don’t explain

Just stay

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