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

Author's Note:

Take the risk, let me burn you.
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  • 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.

  • carlosjackal On Sunday, March 3, 2013, carlosjackal (3011)By person wrote:

    Now this is love to the Nth degree. Really like it.

  • BetaWolfinVA On Saturday, March 2, 2013, BetaWolfinVA (795)By person wrote:

    nice, incandescent even Scholar

  • dwells On Friday, March 1, 2013, dwells (4288)By person wrote:

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

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