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by Eliot
Rated: E · Poetry · Teen · #586969
For her seventeenth...
Birthday Candles

Each candle lights
A darkened corner,
In whose favored moment
The lost and lonely see
Your crystal life shine clear.

But blow them out today
While we stand near,
Radiant in your light,
For nothing lit outshines
The brightness of your love.
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