CANDLES
Light us one by one. We will open a new world to you.
Our warmth will comfort you, our light will strengthen you.
As you take the first candle and light another and another,
You will find that when we share we become richer.
Our drippings are the tears we shed for one another.
Those shared tears fall, harden, and strengthen us.
In our center is the flame, the light that shines from our core.
This core, the wick, runs through us and makes us what we are.
Without it, we are nothing .. we have no light.
When we share that first flame and all are shining,
We again become one .. sharing warmth, light, and tears.