Candle In His Heart

That little candle burns through the darkness of his heart…

She holds out her hand and he smacks her away
Doesn’t want her help, just lives in the pain
And she prays every night, willing him to survive
She sets little candles all through the house
Hoping that, somehow, he’ll find the light

He talks in his sleep, letting out all his fears
All the night long she watches his tears
They creep down his cheeks, crawling from dreams
And all she can do is sit and watch him sleep
She keeps lighting candles and saying her prayers
And hoping that, in the morning, he’ll still be there

She watches him hurt, writhing in pain
Drowning in this endless rain
And she keeps lighting candles
And dragging him from his sleep
She listens to promises she knows he won’t keep
She walks outside, feels the warmth of the sun
And hopes one day he’ll come with her
When this is all done

She begs and she pleads with him all the time
Her tongue always rolling over the same little rhyme
And he waves her off, pretending he's cool
But his eyes give away the fear in the fool
He doesn’t want to commit to something, anything but this
(Old habits, honey, they’re hard to break)
This is not  yet a risk he’s willing to take

When he goes to sleep, warm in his bed
She hangs rosaries over his head
And whispers a prayer as he drifts into dreams
Nightmares, actually, that rip his tortured soul in two
And she lights all those candles
Not anything new

And she doesn’t know
That deep in his heart
Those candles are burning
So terribly hot
(There’s gotta be more than this, he knows
This can’t really be the close of the show)

Author's Note

Yes, this is another Nikki Sixx inspired poem. I was listening to Sixx:A.M. (Pray for Me, to be exact) and this kind of just...came. Anyway, I'm very proud of it. Comments and crit greatly appreciated :)

EDIT:// revamped a bit. took away the ending line and changed around a few words. this piece is probably my favorite out of everything I've written, but it needed some work.

Reviews

[deeps]

This is such a wonderful write here.
I love the emotion in this write.

[Elissa; the genuine art..]

This is a beautiful write that is full of pain.
"He talks in his sleep, letting out all his fears
All the night long she watches his tears
They creep down his cheeks, crawling from his dreams
And all she can do is sit and watch him sleep
She keeps lighting candles and saying her prayers
And hoping that, in the morning, he’ll still be there"
This really hit me. Amazing work!
(Sixx:A.M: life is beautiful. amazing song also)

-Elissa :D