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Candle Life

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Flame that rises small in height
Melt me with your sweet delight!
So that I might breath new life
For a time between cold nights

Raptured by that sweet perfume
Freed a moment from my tomb!
Reaching up to touch the wound
Never shall I leave this room

Let me swim in warmth's embrace
As stout pillar burns in space
Lapping up the nectar cask
Bliss is captured in its place

Slowly I shall fade away
Rising, sinking like R'lyeh
In due time a bitter haze
Flameout locks me as a stray

Coldest is that final grave
Trapped inside I cannot stave
Frozen to those ether stains
Lacking luster to be brave

Unseen father, hear your son!
Leave me not, I am not done!
Breathe in me a final strum
'til wax and wick and flame be one!
A surreal idea I've had swimming in my mind; I want to do more with it, but there is what I've come up with so far. Very hard to express, methinks.

Thanks to =Sunnybrook1 for the edits. :D
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:sherlock: EDITOR-MODE: Third stanza, spelling of "embrace" and the 3rd to last line, "Unseen father, hear you[r] son!".
:iconveryexcitedplz: FAN-MODE: Many new images to me, but my favorite is the very last line, "til was and wick and flame be one"...:love: