fourteen threadless needles #12

12 - to be left there and forgotten

a table.

a table and
a chair.

a table, a chair
and a candle.

a table, a chair and
a candle that flickers
without being lit.

a table, a chair and
a candle that flickers
without being lit and
two boxes of matches
too wet to catch when
you strike them.

a table, a chair and
a candle that flickers
without being lit and
two boxes of matches too
wet to catch when you
strike them and the gentle
voice that you hear.

a table, a chair and
a candle that flickers
without being lit and
two boxes of matches too
wet to catch when you
strike them and the gentle
voice that you hear only when
you look at the candle that
flickers without being lit.

a table, a chair and
a candle that flickers
without being lit and
two boxes of matches too
wet to catch when you
strike them and the gentle
voice that you hear only when
you look at the candle that flickers
without being lit by the matches
too wet to catch when you strike
them.

a table, a chair and
a candle that flickers
without being lit and
two boxes of matches too
wet to catch when you
strike them and the gentle
voice that you hear only when
you look at the candle that flickers
without being lit by the matches
too wet to catch when you strike
them all calling out, begging,
to be left there and forgotten.