Death of a Candle (1)

Suicide

This is how

it decided to end it's life

Self-inflicted

Just gave up

 

It's spirit spiralling upwards

staying around in transparent etherial clouds

until disappearing

into the gloomy night

 

Death of a Candle (2)

Murdered

Killed in it's prime

Strangled between fingers

around it's blackened throat

 

A serial killer

He's done this many times before

Feels nothing in the fingers (tools of trade)

Doesn't care - on automatic

 

Candle's life ebbs away

 

It's spirit spirals upwards

hovering in transparent etherial clouds

finally disappearing

into the gloomy night

 

Don Matthews October 2017