Aurora Magazine 2020

Aurora

Candle Tavia Hedrick

You had set me in a place all pretty And put my body on display Sharpened the knife and cut me clean But just enough so I could burn. You let my smoke suffocate like your hugs, And let the flame blind my eyes. For if candles burned a lifetime, Mine blew out a long time ago. But here I am still breathing before you, With my jar almost clean But you light your match anyway And all I can do is burn.

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