Inside
Light a candle and breathe easy,
hold it lightly in your hand
for it’s a feeble flame fed by you,
your determination,
your countenance is all it needs
to keep the brilliance alive.
The orange and yellow of the heat
visibly move to the rhythm
of your heartbeat and your flushing,
your pulse and your blushing,
focusing on nothing but your vitality,
living only because you are alive.
Now that the flame glows brighter,
now that the wax drips down,
you place the candle in its tiny nook,
its little corner where it had lain
dormant for far longer than expected,
before you whispered life into something dead.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIIAFJKLMNO |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 108 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
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