Candle (5/21/01)

Candle
Tiny light in the bleakness of night
Minute spark in the fathoms of life

How do you stand alone against the world
The wind threatens your flame even as it ignites it
The heat melts you even as it warms you

How do you survive?

Once I was a candle too
But maybe I blew too hard
Too fast
Too strong
Because the wick has been cold for a long time
Longer than my heart knows to count

It’s been so long that I don’t remember where the matches are
Did I ever light a match to start you
So long ago?
I can’t remember that either

Your light casts flickering shadows across the ceiling of this room
Drawing pictures of the past
Tracing outlines of the future
Crashing against my heart as a wave crashes against the sand

I want to be you
If only to be me
Somehow, someday…
To be me again
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