Little flickering candle flame
I see you
Holding back the dark
I watch you grow
See how life tipped you over
Almost snuffing out that fragile flame
I see the spark catch as you become
A fire burning through the debris
Those before you left behind them
From this distance, I float
Enthralled as your slow burn
Raging and ebbing
Creeps across the wasted lands
Breaking open seeds long dormant
Waiting for the heat of your existence
They call you wild and run from your path
The world burns with your passion
The collision seems slow
Burning worlds you and her and him and them
Smashed together by happenstance
Igniting
Galactic conflagration
Burning star giving birth
To satellites
Meta-you becomes the center
Of the solar system
I watched the sun rise
Where a candle once burned
Small against encroaching darkness
