there is a light within us <br />we do not keep it inside for soon <br /> <br />it shall burn us alive and so <br />we keep ourselves open to <br /> <br />the blue skies and to the <br />full moon at night so they <br /> <br />all can see us flicker like <br />a star glowing in the darkness <br /> <br />of our longings we keep this <br />light burning and burning <br /> <br />night and day till we are <br />all consumed till we are all <br /> <br />gone like a candle burning <br />itself to nothing<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/burning-to-nothing/
