Light A Single Candle
By Amywyn
Disclaimer: Buffy & co. are not mine... that privelage belongs to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, the WB and the wonderful people who give them life. Only the poem is mine and I'm making no money here, I'm just in it for the fun.
Light a single candle
for this fate I did not choose.
Through it I have lost
more than I knew I had to loose.
Light a single candle
for those I could not save.
I failed them in my duty.
I sent them to their grave.
Light a single candle
for a love that once burned true.
Even if I could get him back,
would he forgive what I had to do?
Light a single candle
For a decision made while lost.
When I started on this path alone
I never counted on the cost.
Light a single candle
for all I didn’t say.
But the faces that I longed to see
I could not face by light of day.
Light a single candle
for faith in friends betrayed.
I know now I should not have left,
but not how I could have stayed.
Light a single candle
for my battered heart and soul.
I cannot fill these empty spaces,
I left all that made me whole.
Light a single candle.
For I’ve done nothing but fail.
I hold each pain here in my hand,
each one a coffin nail.
Light a single candle.
They cannot love me still,
but loneliness on top of grief
is too much a bitter pill.
So I ask the wind to tell the birds
to beg them this for me.
Light a single candle
on this path I cannot see
and lead me safely home again,
where I so need to be.