• I lay there awake with nobody to call.
    With my hand ovr the bed, I let the phone fall.
    I can't get to sleep.
    My friends are not awake.
    Am I alive?
    I feel like I'm dead.
    And I look like a vampyre the sun had just slew.
    I check my pulse.
    Heart beating so faintly.
    I stare at the roof.
    Bored out of my mind.
    I light one candle I hide in my closet and stare until dawn.
    The light is flickering and keeps burning on.
    I am like that candle, at once I decide,
    I flicker and dim but will not die.
    The sun rises up.
    I breathe but once more.
    My head hits the pillow.
    I'm tired no more.
    Then the candle went out.