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Meh, I don't know why I'm posting this, but anyway.... wrote this a couple years ago at 4am after learning that a friend killed himself.
A single candle
Sitting upon a stand, it's light diffuses, illuminating little
The flame dances as the air flows and eddies
Growing taller and shorter
Like a beating heart
Consuming oxygen
Giving off photons, hydrocarbons, heat
A chemical lung in a precarious balance
It's scent reaches my nose
Setting it apart from the manuscripts, the bedding, the rain
Subtle yet demanding attention
Alone in the night
Like you dear friend
Light reflects off my eyes
Distance does not matter
Then a gust of wind through a cracked window
A single candle
Expires
A single candle
Sitting upon a stand, it's light diffuses, illuminating little
The flame dances as the air flows and eddies
Growing taller and shorter
Like a beating heart
Consuming oxygen
Giving off photons, hydrocarbons, heat
A chemical lung in a precarious balance
It's scent reaches my nose
Setting it apart from the manuscripts, the bedding, the rain
Subtle yet demanding attention
Alone in the night
Like you dear friend
Light reflects off my eyes
Distance does not matter
Then a gust of wind through a cracked window
A single candle
Expires