BURN (Wattys2015?)

burns

i tried to play with fire

(and we all know how that goes)

i'm covered in scars

burns from my own words

they stung and they flamed

i wrote down my mind

empty the empty words of my heart

and scattered the letters across the page

but i never got the courage to throw my words

into the fire

because i didn't want to listen to the smoke

as it read everything back at me

i wish i could take a lighter 

and send all these feelings to ashes

but for some reason the embers have gone out

so i can't stoke the flames

and i'm soaking wet

and out of matches

guess that's just my luck?

that i can't burn this after all