I lit a match and swallowed the flame the taught, warm light allowing me to glow a distant orange, and you watched me. Yet, your stare provided me with more heat
than I could ask, and I found myself wanting you more and more again, but you didn't realize what you had done; that you, for a brief second, illuminated me. And you pressed your fingers to the glass,
your hands were shaking, your mind a mess , and I cried out at the heat from your touch, but the indirect contact, it wasn't enough. Not enough for you to luminate me. You remain behind the wall you've painstakingly constructed.
You reside behind truths and life and love, and I should not have to swallow a flame to feel the warmth from your resounding gaze in the night, please take me in. Even, if only for a moment,
I need it. I need you. And I beg of you, illuminate me.