Kerosine Kandle
Light up my kerosene kandle and I watch it fade away, and in its dimming light all I can see are these chains, holding me down, holding me back and before long, all I see is black. Light up my kerosene candle again, just to see that I can’t win

And my world it is so small, but it comes crashing down so hard, it brings me to my knees. And the weight almost breaks my back, and I reach to the flames for comfort, but all I find is one more can of kerosene to light my world, see my dreams as screams fill my head. My future stained with blood that I have bled, and so I blow out the flame run away, save my kerosene kandle for another day.


Light up my kerosene kandle, and I watch the flames die down, and in its fading light all I can do is hang my head and frown, because I know before I am ready it will all be taken away. I take my kerosene kandle and throw it against the wall...


I don’t want to see what its light shall reveal, I just want something this pain to kill. I take a match to the puddle of kerosene and I watch as the flames engulf everything. I watch my past burn away as in my life I turn the page. I look forward and move on by, and in the fading light of my kerosene kandle...I die.


Copyright Timm Morris, June 30, Y2k