a candle wavers 

dusk descends

grim singular eye inside dead face

staring back into the coming gloom, 

unblinkingly stoic

yet magnificent despite eternity’s graveyard

a singular light donating fleeting glimpses of life

resurrected from somnambulant souls

an eye in a pyramid

prism rays saturating mindful masterpiece eclipses

longing for rest inside the fading daylight

soon night streams in

to a thawed candle, 

a demolished ocean of ivorysand

leaving only disembodied survivors

and shadows are trapped inside its waves of continual rebirth

fixated on another beginning

inside its cyclic seasons of ocean swells:

infinite candle once blazing now complacent,

quenched candle once imperishable now mortal

miles along a staggered beach,

a Platonic candle stretches endlessly 

to where lost sailors, blinded by perfect light, 

memorize elegiac manuscripts

recalling visionary tomes,

recite scrolls of sweetness gone demonic

and soon these blinded seafarers, 

candles faltering,

swirl beyond sentience before their grateful drown,

ashes returning to 

the waxen cadaverous reservoir

February, 2016