Every candle burns
Only once
Every dissonant cord
Finds its tremble
On a violin’s bridge
At intermezzo
Or when dormant
Unwept
Next to an unkept
Promise
Every candle burns
Only once
Then it becomes
That dissonant promise
Of sunset skies
Over parched lands
Where I lost
My violin
As I forgot
How fingers travel
How fingers bleed in silence
Over steel cords
To recall a name
As lonesome
As a candle
Flame
Yet candles burn
Only once
And my flame
Has now found
Its sunset
Sky
December 4, 2021
© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2021
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