Matchstick

By Dei

You shivered within your goose fleshed skin
and I assumed it was from the haunting, relentless cold.
So I doused my soul in gasoline and set myself ablaze
hoping the scorching would be enough to melt away your chill.

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Published on Thursday, February 28, 2013. Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

Take the risk, let me burn you.

Comments on "Matchstick"

A former member wrote: How righteous this is in a sense of self sacrifice.. Love can be a fickle thing but you wrote it beautifully.
On Sunday, March 3, 2013, carlosjackal (2788) wrote:

Now this is love to the Nth degree. Really like it.
On Saturday, March 2, 2013, BetaWolfinVA (791) wrote:

nice, incandescent even
On Friday, March 1, 2013, dwells (4177) wrote:

Self-sacrifice on a hope seems to be a setup for inevitable disappointment maybe, best of luck and all-consuming.