This little flicker It just refuses to Be extinguished It jumps and dances Soars and falls And some days I can go hours without Your name crossing my mind Emerging from my lips Cutting through my chest I suppose that means it’s “better” Then I see you See through you Deep into you And I’m Helplessly intoxicated again Admiring your gift for The purest expression Of cold, hard pain Playing it on repeat As I cross your lit up bridge With that unpronounceable name Thinking I might get it right someday But oh Extinguish damn it! You’d think the wetness Dripping from these cheeks Would have drowned it by now I’ll bet you don’t know the extent Of those salty seas boy Let me tell you They are vast They are vast But not enough For this Little flicker That continues to burn And dance And frolic And defiantly sticks its tongue out At my repeated attempts To deprive it of oxygen To deprive it of your beauty That somehow makes its way Through every possible crack in my world This little flicker It laughs with abandon And continues to burn away