To what shall I hold a candle
To what shall I hold a candle
to love that passes by the hour
or to the days and nights
we have shared in the innocence
of our affections
Say that we have travelled greatly
in time and space
and that day by day
we have come to know
our names and our bodies
and our true selves
as our movements mapped
a unique constellation of light
when darkness roamed the earth
To what shall I hold a candle
but to the passing of passion
to the fading of belief
to the slow drip of our age
into empty memories
John Lyons