Love
If You Are Fire
From Youth (1915)
LoveThe Mind
If you are fire and I am fire,
Who blows the flame apart
So that desire eludes desire
Around one central heart?
A single root and separate bough,
And what blind hands between
That make our longing’s mutual glow
As if it had not been?
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Codex Note
Nine lines that ask who blows the flame apart when two lovers are both fire, 'so that desire eludes desire'.
Cite this poem
MLA
Rosenberg, Isaac. “If You Are Fire.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/22/.
Chicago
Rosenberg, Isaac. “If You Are Fire.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/22/.
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