Death by Candlelight

Have you ever watched joy burning

Languidly casting solemn sorrow shadows

On restless walls

Have you reached out 

To feel it

Swallow it 

With open hands

Only to draw back your fingers

Naked and scorched 

Have you watched it

Carelessly dripping off table tops

Steady streams 

Lost to bursting ground

Have you wanted it

Deep deep and longed

and seeing it dance

In flickering excess

Healed your useless hand 

With tears

Because 

You could not hold it

And stagger from the room

To show them

Have you ever known and smiled and sunk?

Reviews

[Terrance Brown]

I have yes, but you? This sounds like a garden with out the fairy's. 'Have you ever known and smiled and sunk?' really is a splendid keystone.

[Ed Hart]

only when my heart was broken...i can taste the tenor of it here

[.]

~ i'm astounded by this piece of poetry... it reminds me of the phase in my life when my dreams came true but i was looking at those moments... and they already seemed like they'd come to an end... and they did... and... i'm still looking for why... and hoping that the truth will liberate me even if dreams don't return to reality...