As a candle newly lighted
Strange emotions grow inside,Like a world that’ just been sighted
Surrounds itself with pride.
We cannot change the feeling
Mistaking it for love.The eternity we’re stealing
Will not add up to much.
He stood like an angel at sunset,
He shone like a candle at night.We reach out our arms for what we can’t get,
What cannot be, yet might.
With somebody’s arms around you
It’s impossible to surmiseThat love has finally found you,
That the cynics told you lies.
But the flame will go on glowing
And laugh at fools like us,All powerful, all knowing,
Re-phrasing love as lust.
Innate desires to connect
Makes partners of us all,The joy within we can accept
As life before the fall.
As melted wax solidifies
In tear-like drops of pain,We recognise our little lives
Cannot support the flame.
And life does little to redeem
The void in which love thrivesA vision, a wish, a childhood dream
That lasts us all our lives.
The candle finally melts away
Like love that falls apart,And leaves us nothing to take away,
It was nothing at the start.
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