The Candle

Shimmering glow as your wax it falls
Dancing light show on the walls
Lighting the path with your silver glow
Showing us the way to go

Your life is brief, you burn out fast
And unlike us you have no past
We dwell on memories as we thrive
But you have none, are you alive?

We trust your guttering smoky haze
To light us through our many days
And when your gone we feel no pain
Although your sparkling smoke remain

Do you feel sorrow as you burn low
Or feel a pain when time to go ?
Your light still shining in our eyes
We ne're have time for soft goodbyes

No heart to break, no tears to shed
You do not lie in lonely bed
And when your light goes out at dawn
You leave behind no one to mourn

For heart you've none to cause you harm
Your only task is light and warm
And brief as though your life may be
Oh candle do not envy me