The Torch Bearer

I come to your class,you put your head up and I ask you again

to"come here"I even showed you the note in my hand

but you shook your head 'no' and said you wasn't coming

That's when my heart flooded like a drain that needs plumbing

I walked away with my head down,because down was my soul

Cast down by your rejection into a pit of the unknown

Throwing the flame that burns me now,you don't even care

You laugh at my ruin,you put gasoline on my flare

You made me what I am now,a monster you've created

So now you're destroying your creation,so lonely so hated

The bearer of my doom,the nightmares that I fear

The bearer of the torch that created the flames I wear

I thought you liked me but I know now that I was wrong

By the sound of your laughter like one of hell's songs

I cry tears of emptiness but that will never help

extinguish the combustion of emotions I have felt

That will never extinguish the fire in my soul and mind

The bearer of the torch throwing your flames to find

out how long it takes for them to swallow me up

and scorch me,blaze me until I've had enough
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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