A melting pot

Marla Klein

by Marla Klein

Story


A candle burns slowly until it’s dead,

It’s the same with suicide

Any time someone hurts you:

the candle burns a bit

Until you can’t take it anymore:

the flame dies

They tell me that I do not sparkle anymore,

but they are the ones that extinguished the flame

When a candle burned down, you throw away the container it was in

Your skin is your container, it’s worth nothing when it’s empty,

an empty shell, that no one would even look at if it were stranded at the beach


 So why not throw yourself of a bridge

We are not like any other empty container, we don’t float








a melting pot pt.2

I am so happy I can’t take it anymore

So, I extinguish the flame myself

But when I am not well,

It is so hard to light it again

I don’t have the light to see the wick,

So I burn myself


© Marla Klein 2023-08-20

Genres
Anthologies
Moods
Emotional, Mysteriös, Dark, Sad
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