Melted Wax

REFLECTION

A free verse.

Each drop of melted wax captures moments of reality that passed. Those moments are gone, just like the flame.

Melted wax is what remains.

The wax takes the form of the base — whatever the shape, or size, while at the same time clinging onto its candle. It is part of the candle, yet it molds into the container. It morphs the entire candle into a new shape.

The candle is only alive when it is lighted. Its life span shortens every moment it burns.

Its wax either evaporates into the air or melts down to the base.

What has evaporated has transcended. What melts down holds the past — those moments of great joy, suffering, amazement, sadness…all those sensations that were experienced by people at the time the candle was burning. These moments want to come back to life. To be burned again.

And so it cycles on. Melting down again and again taking different shapes. Until that one moment, it evaporates and transcends.

All of the past we don’t hold, we don’t remember, have transcended. Those we do keep us here.

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