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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Candle

A candle burns.

Look, it weeps.

A candle sacrifices itself
    to give us light,
warm out night.

It shrinks,
    slowly vanishing,
gutters out,
    life complete.

Am I this candle?

Candle-and-ribbons

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