2. A Definitive (Poetry)

-Thirty Six-

Candles Are Quiet Tonight:

The candle light is quiet tonight 

Tonight's a night for crying 

For cotton mouthed expressions that won't overflow 

As emotional turbulence wins the losing fight 

Tonight's a night for the ghosts in the walls, candle light dying

For remembering a melancholy with nostalgia taste 

For sitting in a quiet room of stars and words

For questioning every little moment that makes up a fate

For quietly looking at the wounds that still hurt 

Because some things don't ever heal over even if they scar up 

And it'll all be okay but just tonight

Just tonight, in the quiet it's okay to be assured that it's all fucked

And in the yellow low light I just might

Dig a little deeper with two hands into my soul

And spread the photos out on the floor

And watch the sun come up again 

Because the candles are quiet tonight. 

I am alone, in readiness or in doubt,

I am alone to breathe at the wounds that need to be looked at in the dark. 

The candles are quiet tonight. 

~J.K.M.