Did you know it takes an hour and a fifteen minutes for five candles to go out all together?
I had known on that day I asked god not to take you from me. I lit five candles then.
And I stood there watching it burn until the sun stopped waiting for me.
I never left my spot and I prayed along with every drip of wax for your recovery.
But between you and me,
It doesn't actually take an hour or so for five candles to melt completely.
The candles had fallen into the water as a stump.
Perhaps god took pity on me.
Pity on the girl who stood and cried begging for the life of her love.
Does that remind him of his own mother who grieved for her son?
-From Jelly to Whales
