The Wax Under the Candle - Poem

A couple of months ago, just after launching the blog, I released a poem called "Infinitely Singular: Candles in Remembrance" about the candles in the children's memorial section at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel. The inspiration behind that poem was based around the fact that the candles in that room where actually a reflection of one singular candle, mirrored into infinity.

Just one single candle.

Recently, the basis of the inspiration for that poem came back to me, after my teacher encouraged me to write a poem based off the concept "The wax under the candle". I remembered the feeling of inspiration and motivation behind the writing of the aforementioned poem and set my pen to work.

Here is that poem

I hope you enjoy it.

Yitzy Schweitzer

The Wax Under the Candle - Poem

In a room engulfed in darkness
Is there a sign of life
In a room of darkness
Wasn’t there once happiness and joy?

If this room once played host
To these great emotions
Why, now, has this room
Been left alone

A little bit of light
Chases away the darkness
And a little bit of light
Can come from a candle

There is a candle in my pocket
So I remove it, I set it alight
As the wax drips, the candle dances
Light, at last