A Fading Flicker
A Fading Flicker
Sitting silently in the darkness
I watched a candle
begin to fade.
Slowly its illuminating
flicker began diminishing.
Yet, its glow swaggered
from side to side~~~like a solitary dancer
softly taking a few final steps—
the wick no longer
a glow.
For a moment
I held my breath.
“No,” my insides shouted,
but in the painted
black silhouette
smoke began to rise.
I could ‘see’ the many
shadows through the
years gone by.
Maybe, just maybe
until something dies
around us…’within us’
we truly are not ready
to let-go~~~surrender
to the self
waiting to embrace
the formless
I AM.
When a star dies,
it gifts creation
with ‘carbons’
spreading through the
universe adding to the
abundance of life.
In this darkness
I see the light as
never before.
In its Re-Birth,
there is my endless and eternal Hope.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful light! I am honored to receive your poetic gifts. 🙂
I am ‘feeling’ your light…thank YOU!
What a beautiful perspective
Yours are the eyes that see!!!