Love Poem: A Melting Candle Sits
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Written by: Michael Smith

A Melting Candle Sits

A melting candle Is, atop mine open sill As a refuge through and through What breaks the twilight swill Pierces blackened night And in proxy cries the fiery light A time to oft enflames to flicker Against fighting odds and winds do kill But, the wax it softens flowing thicker Becomes molten liquid, pure As teardrops, drips of life go quicker Falling down, surround a hardening heart As half lit shadows begin to stir Across an ever nebulous mind of sorts And where a solemn figure sits Waiting for return of love's visage Past into waning hours Hoping its presence shall soon pay a visit In the touch of tomorrow's lips