Candle

candle wavers as dusk descends

grim singular eye inside dead face

staring back into the coming gloom

unblinkingly stoic

yet magnificent despite eternity’s graveyard

singular light donating fleeting glimpses of life

resurrected from some somnambulant soul

eye in the pyramid

prism rays saturating mindful masterpiece eclipse

longing for rest inside the fading daylight

now night streams in

candle melting

demolishing ocean of ivorysand

disembodied survivors

shadow trapped inside waves of continual rebirth

fixated on another beginning

cyclic season of continual ocean swells,

infinite candle once blazing now complacent

quenched candle once struggling now resigned to mortality

miles along some staggered beach

a Platonic candle stretches endlessly

where lost sailors blinded by perfect light memorize elegiac manuscripts

recall golden visionary tomes

recite scrolls of suggested sweetness gone demonic,

and there these blind seafarers

falter as candles

and swirling beyond sentience,

gratefully drown now,

ashes melting back into that mighty waxen cadaverous reservoir

February, 2016