Held the hose
Hit the switch
Threw the fire
- Set ablaze

I asked
Put down the hose
Point another place
Reverse the switch

Destroy something else
I'm burning alive
I begged
Desist

I will do
What I must to survive
I'll cut off the feed to
The flame-spitting hose

Trust me, she said
I'll stop spraying fire
Then I'll find a way
To put out the flames

Stay; freeze
While burning alive
Screaming in pain
Wanting to die

Why am I waiting
For her to decide
The time that's right
To end my bane

She stares in my eyes
"You hurt me"
she says
- I ruin her life -

I should trust her
She'll capably carry
The key to the end
Of the hell in my life

(Instead
Another key turned
Some time before
Igniting my curse)

It continued - she cried -
And steam rose from my eyes
I begged her to please
End my scorching cries

She told me to stop
- I was sick of her lies -
My asking her
To turn a switch

Stop
My burning alive
Was cruel; harsh
Merciless

"Harassment!" - apparently I
Was out of place
To ask her to stop
She left

Calling me "burner"
"Torturer; Manipulator"
For telling her
To simply give me my life

I broke
Slumping to the switch
Ending the torch
I closed my eyes

Alone
Praying for rain
Feeling alive
Crushed beneath pain

Sarah
I begged you for life
Not for me
But for you

Why this
What we've come to
- You burned me and ran
And yes; I'm fine

But Sarah, one question
Why?