Going Out In a Blaze of Maybe

Foolish 

enough to fall

for the idea of a person

so that even after fireworks

when seething ashes

have turned bitter-blue

and almost forgotten

the idea of that person

remains

faint but always present

one still-warm ember

brooding below

capable of igniting

the memory 

of the idea of this person 

and tending it to full-blown

catastrophe

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