A match struck in the dark.
I, watching the fire catch, appreciate the splintering of time.
And, patient as lichen on lime,
I wait for darkness.
Matches burning down.
Dead rocks in the ground.
Everything that I've tried to do.
Lying down sideways thinking bout you
might be something I'll always do,
no matter who I'm lying beside.
Will you do likewise?
Matches burning down.
Dead rocks in the ground.
Everything that I've used
to make sense of time.
You, and this your life.
A one-way road to ashes.
In love with the road.
I'm sitting here, thinking that it's just life.
Such as it is.
It's burning down right before my eyes.
Such a it is.
Run to me, my love!
Oh run to me, my love!
Where I'm burnt I can't burn.
I'm one-quarter black.
The old are mostly smoke;
the young are merely wood.
Life is where the fire burns.
A moment.
A moment.
I know
the way it all ends
was written long ago.
My last words there in my first breath.
And life walks in the shadow of death.
But I'm far from done yet.
Matches burning down;
Dead rocks in the ground:
The fleeting and the fixed.
No question which I am.
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