January Poetry Contest - Arsonist | Penana

Login

Register

Please use Chrome or Firefox for better user experience!

Comments

Show more...

6

2

Prev

Next

Style

Expand

Menu

coins

Sponsor

Request update

Share

Report

#27

Arsonist

NescavEckWriter

Jan 28, 2025

224

1 Min Read 302 Words

x

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5IZqZHBplU

Let's stop playing games

Watching as it goes up in flames

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwQr2As5ZZ

You standing there

I'm over here

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPV4mnjLLp

Our eyes connect

In yours I see a speck

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQalDAGk66L

Of something so unknown

Something as heavy as stone

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtVJbwgenl

Our life filled with photo frames

And other people's names

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCdY1Wk45M

Each of us has our own

But it's your heart that I want to know

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJajKRRjJh

Her hand in yours

His hand around my waist

My heart is making a tour

Entering that dangerous space

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFuSh2O3Oun

Between right and wrong

The two of us known eachother for so long

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5EfLTSaYB

Tell me how can this be

Why didn't your heart choose me

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSd5TgHdEUR

All those years ago when both us were single

Why didn't the spark between us lit a flame

A sort of kindle

My heart should have known your name

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvF56Suc1Re

What if we tell them goodbye

I don't want to lie

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEsutBSzMF

Not to myself and not to him, but it's you I want

In my slumber it's your name I chant

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUqXo8JtYL

How did it get this far

My head and heart is in the middle of a war

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHaWjMsLSW

Like a wildfire burning a path

Thinking about doing something that I shouldn't have

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwaZ3yOnfC

Do we burn the lives we built to ashes

Seeing the flashes

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLWoSGizcA

Of the memories of me and him, you and her,

We could never go there

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfpc9NFGJc

Breaking the eye contact

My heart just barely intact

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2LJDkdMU6

I don't want to go closer to you

Afraid of what we would do

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoAxixjHwu

Just wanting to touch you once, feeling your lips on mine

Shaking the thoughts out of my head, it's a damn crime

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7V3d7HT1Nu

To be an arsonist and light our lives on fire

We simply need to push these feelings down and retire

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU518ROHBJt

I can't just sit and watch it burn

So I will return

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSi2SvyBjHT

To holding him, while you kiss her

Watching this event occur

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb09qlL5vcW

There will be no burning flames

As we stay with the people in our photo frames.

228Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKMJXf8RU4

-Denesca van Eck

-21 January 2025

-Part 1/25

ns216.73.216.6da2

2

coins

6 likes

NescavEckWriter

Previous Issue >

January Poetry Contest

Bookmark!

Time Remaining

Submission Closed

Entries

#3 Whispers of Autumn

#5 new york city

#6 sunset window

#7 Celestial Symphony ✨

#8 ❦ Candle / Silence / New Year’s Eve ❦

#9 What has the world all come to? By McKinley Sullivan

#10 Figure of the Night

#11 Falling for you

#12 A New Start

#13 The Snow That Keeps Us Apart

#16 Moonlight Dreams

#17 In den Gärten der Träume

#20 Stupid that

#23 The Earth's Lament

#25 Sizzle’s Poem for Penana

#28 The Last (Flight) to Start

#29 The Old Man and the Sea

#31 "Forget It"

#32 Closing Remarks