Moth to the Flame

She comes to me dark night
White hot at the burning stake

That blinds the moth
So willingly
Risking all to white-hot glow

Consumed
With white-hot beauty
The night may hold

She comes to me,
We lay,
Burning, white hot

That moment
That we lay
That night,
So long ago.

                 —C. S. Wiser
 

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