8. a candle fire
the castle i built for us
burned to the ground
by a candle fire.
and it’s the candle we’ll curse
instead of the castle
built with all the right intentions
admired in so many ways
and yet
only a castle
never a home.
i should’ve known better
than to light that candle
but there’s one thing
i always forget
it was you
who handed me the match.
we burnt it down together
and we’ll always have that
but instead of burning
we should’ve been building.
but we were never going to build
were we?
we were never earth and water
we were fire and fire.
we were always going
to burn shit down
we just weren’t supposed
to scorch each other doing it.
a fire between us, no
a fire amongst us, no
a fire made of us.