Love Poem: Elemental Flame
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Written by: Thabang Ngoma

Elemental Flame

You can feel the moon boil
As your rocket burns my soul
And scotches the sunspot
Of our love’s first footprint

I can feel the moon shine
Off your dust particles so fine
They are like a crashing wave
Deafening my mind like a bat cave 

I’m hypnotised by your silver moon
For your heart’s treasure to mine
Only appreciated from distant stars
Pressurised under a trillion bars

I watch you split the atoms
And hold the aftermath in your arms
A se&y ‘Big Bang’ explosive
You emerge slightly radioactive 

Time escaped the periodic table
Leaving electrons so unstable
To assemble your universal frame
And reenergise our elemental flame