Life’s Light

candlelight flickers

lighting the doorway

no one knows

it used to be a torch

a torch whose light

touched all in its path

leaving smiles and security

but slowly the people

drifted away

finding light other places

the torch became lonely

no purpose it had

no lives needed lighted

and no one

to feed the torch

and make sure that

its fuel did not extinguish

The torch slowly died

with no one beside it

just a breath away

from being blown out