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I ask you does it matter

That I lit a candle bright

Even if the flame lights only

A corner of the night?

I ask you what if someone

With no will to shine

Takes strength from my

Single flame…such a feeble sight,

Doesn’t that mean that

My tiny being…solitary

In  power…. theoretically

Gives over and over again…

While the next flame gives

Away what it has gained

And on and on it catches

Multitudes of flame?

Logically the dim corner

Should become a room

Chandelier lit,  just for fun at noon,

But at night the bright shine sings…

Out of the windows

Catching a still life of dusty rose

Does it matter that such insignificance

Dared to shine at all?  ….I think so.