You are telling a story:
How Fire Took Water to Wife

It’s always like this, you say,
opposites attract

They want to enter each other,
be one,
so he burns her as hard as he can
and she tries to drown him

It’s called love at first
and doesn’t hurt

but after a while she weeps
and says he is killing her,
he shouts that he cannot breathe
underwater—

Make up your own
ending, you say to the children,
and they will, they will