NPMC15: Soul on Fire

Marching on during my extended National Poetry Month Challenge, I've come up with this little ditty. 

Ditty because I really made up to a little tune that was stuck in my head, and that I also likely made up, but know enough about ear worms not to outwardly make the claim.

Since I won't record myself singing, and I don't know how to transpose melody into notes, I guess you'll never know the tune. Unless there's technology. . . no no. Moving on.

It seems like it would be a good chorus to a longer song. Something a little poppy. A little soft rocky. The easy jump subject wise is to one about a romantic relationship -- but I think it could go for anything you do with unbridled passion.

There's a lot of mixed metaphor in here too, which I think is both bothersome and necessary. It's something that I'll likely address if if I edit this further.

NPMC Poem 15
"Soul on Fire"

You're running this course
with your soul on fire
It's hard to see a way out
through all the flames
If you slow down now
you'll drown in desire
but if you pick up the pace
you'll only burn hotter

Take
my
hand
now

and kick against this bottomless depth

Take
a
breath
now

and we'll soar through 
as you let yourself burn