Innocent

Burning, burning, burning. I sit all day and burn the world.

Hotter, hotter, hotter. Every day I make the world hotter.

I am a weapon, the weapon they use to destroy themselves.

Brighter, brighter, brighter. Every day I appear brighter.

It’s not my fault.

I watch them suffer under my hands. I can do nothing about it.

It goes slowly. A punishment.

It’s not my fault. I am innocent.                       

When it happens, I will watch. When it happens, I will do nothing.

I can do nothing.

Why do they do this?

They put themselves through pain, they put me through pain.

It aches, the guilt.

It eats me alive.

Until I am nothing.

Until I am everything, everything that is left.

When it happens, I will watch. When it happens, I will die.

I am the sun but it is my world.

Without it who am I?