Alight
Dear What You've Done in the Light
You know,
I’m always the one
Always, always, always the one
To try and keep the dying embers of ‘us’ alive.
I always fail
Because this, I had yet to realize, is a two-person struggle.
Hitori isn’t enough—you have to care, too—!
Why am I always the only one who loves?
Why do I feel so strongly?
Why do they always leave me?
I can’t rely or even think of other people
So for now, I’ll burn the bridge
Between my desire for companionship
And my knowledge and feeling of this desire.
“Let’s light it up.”
This poem is about:
Me