First time posting a poem...

[rabidkitty]

I want to set myself on fire,
if only to feel the burn of life
moments before it is extinguished
by the lashings of your tongue,

watching my skin
mingling with the melting fibers
of my clothes,
the shield finally gone
as the blaze goes higher

and higher,
gasping for oxygen
(but you closed the window)
or at least a glimpse
of the cool night sky.

I burn.
I breathe.
You scream.

Water does not always purify.