Thousand Lights

i mourn my dead
even as i know
they have not died
indeed they yet live
in the flame
lit by them
in tinder:
memories..

when at last
my own flame
flickers
and goes out
i know
they’ll dance brighter still
in the thousand lights
i’ll leave behind

written by A. Justin Baker
on the 7th of December 2007 at 11:08pm