Morning Flicker, Step 11

Morning Flicker

-Laurie Benson ©

I light a candle

every morning

meditation.

For my children and

their child and

their loves.

For compassion, even

for me

and for God and His

Wife and

their Son.

I light a candle

every morning

meditation

For my husband and

for me and

for us.

I sit and watch

them flicker

wondering if the

dim or the bright

the shadows

and the light

Are the feelings

of my loved ones,

every one.

I light a candle

every morning

meditation.

For the world,

and unspeakable

pain,

for joy and for

bliss,

for sorrow and

for this

day, this twenty-four

hours full

of 

moments.

At the end of

every morning

meditation,

For my children and

their child and

their loves,

I breathe, I sigh,

sometimes weep

or barely cry,

Then I gently bow,

blow out the light

for now,

and I'm at 

one.