Candlelight

Three tall bony fingers stretched into the night

Topped with hope against the rising tide

Illuminating what waking tries to hide

Propped up by the content of your soul

Though I can’t see

The illusion still remains

I was at first alone

Fears given life by a flickering light

Beyond the lucid veil

Haunted by what resides beyond the glow

Its poison spilling deep within my mind

Though I can’t feel

The illusion still remains

I was at first alone

Fears given life by a flickering light

Beyond the lucid veil

Now, from the void, it emerges

Cloaked in horror

Nightmares of flesh and bone

Nothing

So reveal the darkened figure

Eyes adjust to the flame

Creeping like those bony fingers

Stretching into the sky