Dance With the Devil

I sit and enjoy the mirage playing in front of me toying with my emotions. It is such a cruel thing,  taking no pity on me, teasing me to the brink of devastation. I want to reach out and touch its feathery soft glimmer, drown in its heady scent and when it burns me I want to yearn for more. I watch in awe as it takes form, human form.

Such bright light you cast, casting me in to shadows making me feel insignificant. Instinct warns me of your monstrosity, how you may engulf me in your flames, turning me in to dust, the moment I succumb yet the temptation is overwhelming. My insides wants to hide in your treacherous warmth, beckoning me forward. 

"Oh! Can you be anymore tempting?" I ask desperately. 

"Come" You whisper in my ear. I hesitate. 

'Don't" I say and you laugh out loud throwing your head back, such a sweet sound, reverberating on the stone walls. 

"Do I dare?" I ask myself. "Do I dare dance with the devil?" 

"Haven't you always?" You ask raising my chin with your trembling fingertips your lips inches away from mine. I look away. 

"Don't." You murmur. "I am so terribly alone. I need you." You say taking me by my shoulders, shaking me softly. 

You take a step forward and I take a step back pressing myself against the wall. You smile wickedly knowing that you have cornered me, knowing that I have no where to run. You take a hand soff my shoulder lazily placing it on the wall beside my head and lean in. I can feel your hot breath on my cheek making me melt inside. 

"You are a predator." I say trembling looking in to your scorching eyes.

"I cannot change who I am." You say in a voice barely audible brushing your lips on my throat leaving a trail of wildfire at their wake. 

"You will disappear" I say craning my neck away from you as far as possible in the tempting confinement of your body.

"Yes, I will disappear when the real thing comes." You say pressing against me leaving me breathless. I sigh as your hands travel down my shoulders and you laugh softly against my skin. 

"You want me." You say looking up. "I can feel it."

"I.." I start to say but nothing coherent comes out. " I can't think while you are doing all this." I try to push you away but my strength is no match for yours. You stay unmoved looking at me with your hungry eyes. 

"Please.." I beg. I am not sure what I am begging for any longer. Is it for you to continue or to stop?

You take me by my waist and pull me towards you. "Kiss me, Woman." You command pulling my hair.  "Please.." Then you plead. 

"Just tonight, isn't it?" I ask. You nod softly. "Just tonight." You whisper and I close my eyes. I feel your lips on mine soft but firm devouring me, trying to gain entry. Then you groan when I don't give in.

"Open up for me, sweetness." You murmur against my lips.I part my lips slightly and you sigh in relief breathing in to me.

I realize that we are on fire, covered in flames and in my peripheral view I can see that the entire room has caught fire while I was preoccupied but you do not seem to notice nor care. As though possessed you carry on making me forget the fact that we are burning.

"Fire." I say scared.

"Yes, that is what I am." You say and scoop me in your arms and walk right in to the flames and we burn and burn and burn.