A Candle Burning by Dasya Willis

A memorial poem to soldiers who haven’t returned home and people who have lost friends and family to suicide or forms of violence

A candle burning

Midnight moon returning

A silent night concerning

Racing thoughts overturning

A candle burning

A heart that is yearning

For a friend who is returning

An act of learning

A candle burning

Internal conflict churning

Thoughts stirring

But then a doorbell confirming

A heart that is hurting

Hope deserting

Grief shepherding

A candle no longer burning