I can’t bear to look;
you burn so bright!
Ten billion stars
couldn’t match
the heat I feel tonight.
I am blinded
by your
incandescent light…
if I close my eyes,
will you hold me tight?
Hello?
Why are you so still?
Oh.
You were never here, at all.
Your silhouette
was merely
a human-shaped
hole,
framing a life
I will never know.
Here, I’ll stay.
Here… where nothing ever glows.
©️ 2019.