Paul Corman-Roberts
Candles

Do you know why candles are so cool?
Because when you look at them closely
They look like the number one.
It is a one made up of three components: wax, wick and flame.
Without any of these components, a candle cannot be.
As it turns out, there are wax molecules in the candle.
These molecules look at the other molecules around themselves.
They see other wax molecules look just like them.
They declare their sum total to be wax.
“We look like wax, we act like wax thus we are wax.”
But in fact
They are a candle.
Someday they will realize they are a candle.
Someday they will hear rumors of the impending flames.
When the flame gets close
The molecules will begin to do things they had not dreamed.
They will begin to separate.
They will move at speeds thought impossible.
They will become less solid
And more fluid.
They will seek they’re own level
And become one with the flame
Etheric
A candle cycle complete.
And if you think this poem is about candles
Then you’re still just part of the wax.