Like a Flame to a Moth

They say the love flame that burns

brightest

chars darker or is hotter or something

than a mediocre love

I ought to know

my love for the model

who how it happened I don’t know

fell for me

my love for her

the sex experienced model

burned hot

when our wave of love crested and

our relationship washed ashore

the aftermath of that Bunsen burner

left me a smoking ruin.