Members' Room: Arsonist by Elise Ronan-Ulley

In this poem, Elise Ronan-Ulley evocatively describes how it is to be intrinstically tied to another being by a destructive force.

Arsonist

Heat dances against my skin

Etching meaning into my soul

The orange glow almost a halo

Settles my turbulent mind into

A soft lull of security

Tamed and silent in the wake of

This blazing inferno rising higher

And higher, devouring my flesh while

My mind grows still, satisfied by the burning

Before me slowly losing control, Our beings

In synchrony, honouring the need for destruction

That we both so desperately crave and is

Together we devour

And together we burn.