Poems from 2019: ‘This Little Light of Mine’

This little fading light of mine,

You can’t let it shine.

This little dying light of mine,

You can’t let it shine.

This little sputtering light of mine,

You can’t let it shine.

Make it fade, slowly die, never shine…

You set me in a dark room

To slowly die away.

You kept me hidden from the sun.

I never saw the light of day.

I was beaten, battered, bruised,

Before you set me alight.

You tell me to just let it go;

There’s no reason for my fight.

Don’t you know that if you knock over a candle, it only takes a spark?

I catch the carpet, climb the walls, and roar sweetly like a lark.

I’ll blaze before your very eyes, then crawl into your mind.

I’ll make a pile of ashes out of everything I find.

I don’t need another excuse to burn your kingdom down,

And when I emerge from the ashes, I’ll be wearing your crown.