Candlelight

Christmas Poem 2022

Thanks for joining me on Things I Wrote Down in 2022.

My Christmas poem is inspired by one of my favourite moments of each year, the candlelight service on Christmas Eve.

I hope you experience special moments over the holidays - through memories old and new, through loved ones near and far.

~ AK

Candlelight

The candle we lit
last night and held
together in the 
darkness, one hundred souls
one hundred wicks
raised in carol 

there in the 
sanctuary
our quiet place of
safety
a cleft carved in the rock
of the world 
where we've been 
hidden from
all the shouting, from the
howling of the wind
especially these past three
blustery years

no scarcity of light
even as we parcelled it out
each lick of flame
multiplied upon contact
with the next bare wick
eye sockets strangely aglow
shadows and reflections at all angles
twelve baskets of wonder of
gratitude left over.

Was it a candle we held
or the hands of all the saints
tongues singing Christmas
hymns or messengers heralding 
Heaven's glory?