Like a candle day after day I melt
by your side for years and years I once dwelt
with my light you kept growing and thriving
I'm eaten up but naught you've ever felt

Like a candle day after day I melt
you took my flame and in your torch it dwelt
to lighten all your darkening roads and caves
and all my senses at your weird moods knelt

Like a candle day after day I melt
with all your crazes and blunders I dealt
but no complaints and not a single blame
my heart was burnt, its smoke you’ve never smelt

Like a candle day after day I melt
I was that dreamer; charming, fresh and svelte
but now I’m sinking in my pool of wax
shapeless, soulless and denied a life belt

January 28,2010

Beauty Philosophy

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-melting-candle-rubait/