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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Burned Out.

It's taking forever. This candle burns, but there is no light from the flame. Only intensity. Cupped hands recoil, flex as wax sears intricate rivulet patterns through fingers. You cannot hold this.

It's taking forever. Passion burns and fizzles out while new ideas and new hopes give way to reason. Lost souls turn to lost minds as hands are forced into the fire, desperately seeking to feel the warmth, they wrap arms around and graciously accept the blistering pain, convinced there is no difference. You cannot hold this.

It's taking forever. Intensity turns you away from gazing at the sun, its presence felt, but too much to bear. Like this burning candle that screams and sears and melts its trace through your fingers, into darkness, and leaves you, wishing you could have held it.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

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AmberInGlass said...

If the ellipsis represents a pause, does that pause signify that you
A) like this piece, B) dislike this piece or, C) have no opinion whatsoever on this piece?

Please do tell, as I am intrigued...

Ev Bishop said...

...... _is_ very cryptic. I share your curiosity!

I vote for A.

AmberInGlass said...

Thanks, Ev. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in my curiosity. :)

AmberInGlass said...

...and still waiting for an answer...