Embrace

We were in an embrace,

Your face turned away from me...

I smiled at the moment,

Unaware of what was to be.

We breathed in perfect synchrony -

Our hearts dancing in the rise and fall;

Your arms tightened around my waist,

In every moment, the world grew small.

You broke away and lit a smoke -

Inhaled and exhaled with criminal flair;

Burnt and spent to ashes,

Obscure swirls disappeared into thin air.

The remnants crushed under your boot,

You turned and pulled me into you;

Your touch cold and unloving,

Your eyes, a steely hue.

The stench of smoke rested on my breath,

Your iron grip marked my skin;

Your gaze gnawed through sanity,

Consuming it from the heart within.

A tempest morphed from a gentle calm,

The storm to be braved became you;

You had me for life in your embrace,

Now you've ripped my heart out too.