a small candle
Burn on, burn on,
Oh, candle in the night,
For who knows,
A stranger might see your guiding light.
I would that I were you
With a little flame so bright,
I would seek out all the wanderers
And shine with all my might.
Jennifer is a painter and sometime poet. She has spent one third of her life in Asia and two thirds in America. She writes her poems quickly on the emotion of the moment to capture a depth of feeling that would be lost with a drawing out of time.
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