One Candle
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One candle holds the whole room's darkness back—
a single flame against the accumulated night,
and the darkness, for all its depth and practice,
has no answer for the light.
Hope is the candle. It does not need
to be a searchlight or a stadium bright—
it only needs to be a single, faithful burning
that refuses to accept the night.
Light your candle. Tend it. Share it.
Let someone else light theirs from yours—
and one by one the dark recedes before us,
and we open what the light restores.
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One candle holds the whole room's darkness back—
a single flame against the accumulated night,
and the darkness, for all its depth and practice,
has no answer for the light.
Hope is the candle. It does not need
to be a searchlight or a stadium bright—
it only needs to be a single, faithful burning
that refuses to accept the night.
Light your candle. Tend it. Share it.
Let someone else light theirs from yours—
and one by one the dark recedes before us,
and we open what the light restores.
