The Feeling of Something Ending

There sits a light that wasn’t there before,

And all that’s illuminated I’ve never seen.

A dread makes its home in my heart,

Made of something I don’t know,

Can’t know until it’s over.

I have to find out

Or else I'll be here for eternity.

Doomed to wander.

But my hands are burning

With the embers of something

I can’t, could never, outrun.

My footsteps lead in a circle

And all this is senseless,

And the glow of the city

Doesn’t reflect back at me.

I take another step and

Suddenly it all vanishes

In a flare of smoke

And fireworks

And fireworks

And fireworks.