the unquenched fire deepens, day by day
watching the line of the legs, the walk
throwing fuel on the fire in an effort to quench it
the flick of the fingers, the movement of hands
the fire intensifies to white heat
the dream of reality and the reality of dreams
nearing an explosion of deep burning need
to sleep perchance to dream, to dream perchance to sleep
to live
perchance to live the dream