An Array Of Candles Poem by RIC BASTASA

On that corner
There is this array of
Candles
That you see

If you only look
Carefully
There is one candle
There
Its light is about to
Stop
Its wick so short
To last for
Another minute

That candle is my
Life
And soon it will
Signify an
End

Do not ask me
I do not want an
Extension
Even for a
Second

I had enough of
This light
This little light
I had enough of this
Vast darkness

There is no time
Nicer enough
To convince me
For more of it

I had enough
Let me say it again
I had enough of
You.